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 ...

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 ...

From text-generating ChatGPT to voice-activated Siri, artificial intelligence-powered tools are designed to aid our everyday life -- as long as you speak a language they support. These technologies ...

Although Africa is home to a huge proportion of the world's languages – well over a quarter according to some estimates - many are missing when it comes to the development of AI. This is both an issue ...

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AI models can’t understand African languages. Lelapa AI is trying to change that. Inside a co-working space in the Rosebank neighborhood of Johannesburg, Jade Abbott popped open a tab on her computer ...

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 ...