GSMA, Pleias seek to close African language gap in AI By Staff Writer, ITWebJohannesburg, 29 Apr 2026GSMA and Pleias mark major step in quest to make AI language models for Africa. (Image source: ...

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The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and NKENNEAi, a pioneer in African linguistic intelligence recently convened a strategic session with the aim to solidify a partnership ...

It's a snowy morning outside Van Hise Hall on UW-Madison's campus, but seven students file into a classroom and shed their winter coats. They're here to learn Yoruba, a west African language spoken by ...

TO GET THE most accurate answer from a large language model, make sure to prompt it in the right language. An English-speaking user asking a world-leading model what to do about swollen legs late in ...

Intron, a Lagos-based AI startup has officially launched Sahara-v2, its flagship, second-generation voice AI model, effectively raising the bar for global speech recognition. The model supports 24 new ...

A KwaZulu-Natal man unpacked one of South Africa’s most complex languages in a short lesson that quickly caught global attention online Viewers said they finally understood sounds they had heard for ...

If you speak to an artificial-intelligence bot in an African language, it will most likely not understand you. If it does manage to muster a response, it will be rife with errors. This is an ...

Google has launched WAXAL, a large open speech dataset designed to support the development of artificial intelligence tools for African languages. The dataset, which took over three years to develop, ...