Digital firm Yango Tech, on Wednesday, started public beta testing of its human-like AI assistant Yasmina, where the firm will now welcome the general public to enroll to interact with Yasmina.
Dubai-based company launched this Arabic-speaking, human-like AI assistant in mid-October. The firm said this AI-based assistant is equipped to understand Arabic dialects and respond in vernacular languages such as Khaleeji as well as in English.
The advanced machine works similarly to Amazon-developed Alexa and Apple-owned Siri, where it acts as a smart home center, carrying tasks like adjusting the room temperature, turning on the vacuum, or finding new recipes. Additionally, Yasmina can be built into other applications and smart home devices.
The firm said Yasmina is capable of having conversation naturally and human-like, by engaging in authentic, consistent, and fun ways with the speakers. Additionally, it is installed with local jokes and it can recognize the user’s gender.
The smart device is curated with copywriters and hundreds of individual content contributors, said Yango. The firm also said residents from various locations across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia took part in training Yasmina’s speech recognition, enabling the assistant to understand a wide variety of speech patterns, intonations, and dialects.
“This is why we created an Arabic-speaking smart assistant that helps complete everyday chores more efficiently, fits perfectly in any GCC home, and can, among other things, inform users of prayer times, right now, we’re fine-tuning Yasmina’s LLM to make the assistant even more fluent, creative, and emotionally intelligent,” Samer Mohamad, Yasmina Regional Director for MENA at Yango.
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