The French, English, Portuguese and Spanish colonisers violently imposed their languages on the African population; languages which are still used in the vast majority of institutions on the continent ...
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Google backs African push to reclaim AI language data
A new 21-language dataset gives African institutions ownership and control in a field long dominated by Big Tech.
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Google launches WAXAL, an open source dataset for African languages
After three years of development, Google, in partnership with African research institutes, has finally announced WAXAL. WAXAL, derived from the word “speak” in Wolof, is an […] ...
Orange is working with OpenAI and Meta to build custom AI models that can understand West African languages not understood by most conversational systems. To start with, the telco giant will roll out ...
While podcasting as a storytelling medium has grown exponentially since its birth in the 2000s, its uptake and consumption in Africa has been slow. Hampered by high data costs and an ever-increasing ...
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