"Initially, our focus will be on the Swedish language, where we will make use of our own language resources," KTH speech technology professor Joakim Gustafson, said in a statement. "Then we will do a basic English voice, which we expect to be quite good, given the large amount of open source linguistic resources. And finally, we will do a rudimentary Arabic voice that will be more a proof of concept." Wikipedia plans to have English, Swedish and Arabic ready by the end of the year before moving on to the other 280 languages its site supports.