Technology

New open-source model helps small teams transcribe local languages

A community-built speech model now covers a dozen regional languages with usable accuracy.

Volunteers teach teenagers to build their first websites using only borrowed laptops.

Lawmakers return with housing, transport and digital-privacy bills at the top of the order paper.

Three councils are testing open Wi-Fi in libraries and main streets for six months.

Independent outlets are moving off closed platforms to keep control of their archives and their readers.

Order books at mid-sized factories have grown for a third straight quarter.