Abasizi be-Virtual baya ngokuya bukhona osukwini lwethu nosuku, kangangokuba cishe noma iyiphi inkampani yabathengi ye-elektroniki inqume ukwethula iphrojekthi yayo, abanye baphumelela kakhulu kunabanye, kepha sithola: ISiri, i-Alexa, iCortana, i-Bixby, i-Google Home… Ziningi, akunjalo?
Wake waqaphela ukuthi bonke abasizi ababonakalayo banezwi lowesifazane elenziwa lasebenza ngokuzenzakalela? Ngokusho kwe-UNESCO lokhu kungokobulili. Akunasizathu sokubheka ukuqondana kokukhethwa kohlobo uma kukhulunywa ngokusetha amazwi ngokwakhona futhi bafuna ukukulungisa.
I-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) izinikele ngokuphelele odabeni lwamanje lobuchwepheshe ngezizathu ezifanele, ngokocwaningo lwayo, ukufaka amazwi abesifazane ezinhlelweni zokuqondisa noma kubasizi abakhona ngokuzenzakalela kunika abasebenzisi isithombe sokuzinza nokusebenza kwabo. Kunengqondo kakhulu, noma kungenzeka ukuthi awukaze uqaphele lokhu kuhlaziywa okucabangayo kodaba. I-UNESCO ikhiqize incwadi ngokubambisana noHulumeni waseJalimane kanye ne-EQUALS Skills Foundation.
Kodwa-ke, uma sicela Siri "Kungani unezwi lowesifazane?", uzokuphendula kahle lapho ubhekene nenselelo enjalo: "Abantu baya ocansini, angilwenzi." Ucwaningo olwenziwe ngu UNeuro Insight kuhlinzekwe ubufakazi bokuthi amazwi abesifazane abhekwa njengabanomusa futhi ahlukaniswe kangcono kunoma yimuphi umsindo osendaweni, obangela ukwaneliseka okungama-90% phakathi kwabasebenzisi, kungakhathalekile ubulili. Kusemandleni akho manje ukucacisa ukuthi iqiniso lokuthi izwi labesifazane liyintandokazi amafemu ezobuchwepheshe alisebenzisayo ngokuzenzakalela kubasizi babo libonakala linobulili noma cha, noma kunjalo, iningi livumela ushintsho lwe-pitch esigabeni samasethingi (Endabeni yeSiri ikuvumela ukuthi unikeze isichasiso solimi olufanayo). Ngenkathi, I-UNESCO icela okungenakwenzeka, Ukuze imikhiqizo yenze ithoni yezwi engahlobene nobulili besilisa noma besifazane, uyamkhumbula uLoquendo?