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Context (Thomson Reuters Foundation)

2 records were read from this source, dated 4 Dec 2023.

Its permanent copy is being made in the Wayback Machine.

Last checked 11 Oct 2026

What was read from it

Records read from this source
Record	Kind	As stated	Dated
Rural Indian speakers recording speech data for Karya (supplier to Microsoft and Google)	Price observation	about $5 an hour per hour (paid to the speaker)	4 Dec 2023
One hour of Odia (low-resource Indian language) speech data	Price observation	used to cost about $3-$4, now it's $40 per hour of audio	4 Dec 2023

Figures it feeds

$76 per hour of audioAudio and speech, sales that happened, per hour of audio
$24 per hour of workAudio and speech, paid to the people who make it, per hour of work