If you've been using Google Maps in the past few days - you may have noticed a change. New Zealanders can now hear Aotearoa place names the way they should sound. A new AI-powered text-to-speech model ...

Google and Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori (the Māori Language Commission) have announced the launch of an Aotearoa New Zealand voice in Google Maps. From almost to authentic – today, New Zealanders can ...

Language commission hails normalisation of te reo Māori after years of work in identifying frequently mispronounced words ...

It was meant to be an inclusive gesture to New Zealand’s indigenous Maori community. But plans to introduce bilingual road signs featuring both the English and te reo Maori languages have sparked a ...

Google and the Māori Language Commission have launched an Aotearoa New Zealand voice in Google Maps.

Te reo Māori is set to play an even greater role on the international sporting stage following the development of Te Reo Māori ki Karahiko 2026, a landmark language resource […] ...

The sound of conch and pūkaea rang out across the Wellington waterfront on Thursday 25 June to welcome a group of writers, Te ...

Woman makes a McDonald's order in Te Reo Maori. Source: Facebook / Jeremy Tātere MacLeod A McDonald's store has become the unlikely platform for Maori language revival after a video of a woman ...

Robert Sullivan says there is a "new wave" of poets writing in te reo Māori, inspired by their predecessors.

In 2017, the Whanganui River was made a person in the eyes of the law. The Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act acknowledged, in its own way, that the human world includes other, ...

Toi Ohomai's Te Puke based Te Pokaitahi Reo Maori (Reo Rua) (Kaupae 2) NZ Certificate in Te Reo Maori (Level 2) class was held over Zoom during lockdown. This year, for the first time, Toi Ohomai has ...