Stella Bennett aka Benee took te reo to the Laneway stage as she performed the Māori version of her single 'Soaked' yesterday. 'Soaked' was translated into te reo last year as part of the award winning 'Reo Anthems' project which was spearheaded by Hinewehi Mohi.
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Te Reo Māori champion counters racist ignorance with intelligence
Racist backlash targeting a Māori business in Christchurch which chose to boycott Watties products hasn’t had the affect abusers may have hoped it would
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NewsGoogle hits a home run in pronouncing Māori place names
Google Home has hit a home run in pronouncing te reo place names. After videos of Alexa choking its way through the world’s longest place name “Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu” emerged online, Google Home users then put their speakers, to the test.
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Alexa gets Māori wake-up call about world’s longest place name
“Someone give Alexa some Reo lessons.”
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Māori metal band made album of the decade in Finland
Te Reo Māori heavy metal band Alien Weaponry and their debut album Tū has been named the best album of the decade by Tuonela Magazine, a music publication in Finland.
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Te reo Māori touch for Te Papa's 'wonderful' exhibition
Te Papa Tongarewa Museum has launched their Wonderland exhibition, with a special te reo Māori touch.
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Waiata Anthems supreme winner of Ngā Tohu Reo Māori
With 42 finalists and 150 nominations, this year's Ngā Toa Reo Māori awards boasted the highest number of entries ever received since the awards began in 2004.
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Ngā Tohu Reo Māori 2019, Full Episode
Livestream coverage of Ngā Tohu Reo Māori 2019, The Māori language awards.
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ShowsNgā Tohu Reo Māori 2019
The Māori Language Commission hosts this years' annual National Māori Language Awards to recognise and celebrate excellence and long term commitment to te reo Māori throughout Aotearoa.
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App AI's yet to learn tīkanga Māori
A Microsoft executive has explained the reason behind some of the unusual translations in their recently released Translator app. Microsoft's Dan Te Whenua Walker told Te Ao, “The Microsoft translator app is a pēpē (baby) born only last week. Nothing will be perfect on the first few days of birth. It is still finding its way and taking its first steps." “It has no idea of tikanga yet,” the company's Cloud Infrastructure and Applications Solutions lead says.
