Why we started with European Portuguese
European Portuguese is not Brazilian Portuguese, and most voice models treat it as an afterthought. That made it the right first language for us.
We are a Portuguese company, so the choice was partly personal. But there is a practical reason too. Our work on multilingual voice systems showed that many European languages get much less full-duplex development than the big global ones.
European Portuguese is a good test. There is real data available, native speakers around us and a clear gap in quality. If our method works here, we can check whether it works for the next language.
Where the data comes from
We train on varied, real pt-PT speech: podcasts, public TV and radio, and parliament sessions. Each source sounds different, and that variety matters more than the raw number of hours.
What comes next
More training, structured evaluation and a demo people can try. After that, a second European language. The steps are on our roadmap.
