Delivering the seventh Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair Founders’ Lecture at Unisa, Ambassador Thenjiwe Mtintso challenged South African universities to reclaim African languages as instruments of ...

New translation models, open speech datasets, and automatic speech recognition benchmarks aim to expand AI support 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 […] ...

It’s been over a decade since Milwaukeeans gathered en masse to celebrate African culture and heritage. But, thanks to the work of three local women, the African Cultural Festival is slated to take ...

How do you teach somebody to read a language if there’s nothing for them to read? This is the problem facing developers across the African continent who are trying to train AI to understand and ...

Nigerian-born Becky Pring’ar Dakahap expert in English Literature and a history lover has called on Africans to promote African culture, history and Identity. The book was reviewed by Professor Victor ...

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