The National, the English-language news outlet based in Abu Dhabi, has been selected by the Google News Initiative as one of the first winners of Google’s GNI Middle East Innovation Challenge. The GNI Middle East Innovation Challenge is a programme that will fund a set of projects across the region that inject new ideas into the news industry.
As part of the prestigious award, The National will be developing a new voice service with funding from Google. Both entities see voice spoken content as becoming more important for consumers today and in the future. Titled ‘Voice in the Middle East’, the project will allow the news site to deliver high-quality news service in voice format
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