Yango Group Launches Culturally-Aware AI Assistant Yasmina for the Middle East

October 28, 2024
Yango Group Launches Culturally-Aware AI Assistant Yasmina for the Middle East
  • Positioned as a trusted companion in users' homes, Yasmina leverages culturally aware technology to enhance daily life.

  • Yasmina is culturally aware, offering features like providing Hijri calendar dates and playing surahs from the Quran, which resonate with users in the region.

  • Integrated with YangoGPT, Yasmina aims to simplify users' lives by providing intelligent responses, advice, and guidance on everyday tasks, such as trip planning and gift ideas.

  • Additionally, Yasmina can assist users in brainstorming creative ideas for content in Arabic, including blog posts and video scripts, while offering feedback and structuring suggestions.

  • Yango Group is committed to transforming global technologies into everyday services that cater to local communities, exemplified by their bilingual AI assistant, Yasmina, designed specifically for the Middle East.

  • Advanced technologies such as natural language understanding, speech recognition, and speech synthesis were employed in Yasmina's development, with fine-tuning conducted in collaboration with Arabic-speaking experts.

  • To improve its natural language generation capabilities, Yasmina's language model is trained on varied datasets that capture regional dialects, idioms, and cultural references.

  • The development of Yasmina incorporated input from diverse voices across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), allowing it to adapt to local language preferences and cultural nuances.

  • Yasmina addresses the linguistic and cultural subtleties of Arabic, focusing on the Khaleeji dialect, which is prevalent in GCC countries, and serves over 310 million native speakers.

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