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Code-switching refers to the phenomenon where bilingual or multilingual speakers fluidly switch between two or more languages within a single conversation.
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The Real Bottleneck for Conversational AI: Model Capability or Training Data Quality?
redditr/LanguageTechnology7/10/2026
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