For many African languages there are few written resources online that can be used to train AI. The African Next Voices project is trying to change that by recording underrepresented languages and ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African ...
Scientists record 9,000 hours of languages spoken in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa as free-access training data for AI models. More than 2,000 languages spoken in Africa are being neglected in the ...
The tech giant Google announced that 15 more African languages would be added to Voice Search, Gboard talk-to-type, and Translate dictation on October 28. The languages included are Chichewa, Hausa, ...
In May 2023 Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI in San Francisco, California, embarked on a 17-city world tour to promote artificial intelligence (AI) tools. One of the stops in the first week of ...
As the AI revolution transforms the digital world, millions of people on the African continent cannot tap its full promise because the languages they speak aren’t built into the large language models ...
Why are African languages still so rarely used as languages of instruction in our schools anduniversities? Why do we not see more academic research being published in these languages? Despite the fact ...
Vukosi Marivate is a Co-Founder of Lelapa AI. DSFSI is funded by the Gates Foundation, Meta, Google.org, ABSA (for the ABSA UP Chair of Data Science). Vukosi is a co-founder of the Deep Learning ...
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