A new 21-language dataset gives African institutions ownership and control in a field long dominated by Big Tech.

The African Next Voices project has started out with sites in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. Iuliia Anisimova/iStock Language is how we interact, ask for help, and hold meaning in community. We use ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thursday, Google announced that Google Translate, its multilingual neural machine translation service, has begun offering the ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words to text messages and scouring huge troves of information for answers to complex questions. At least, that is, ...

WAXAL is a large-scale, openly accessible speech dataset designed to catalyze research and build more inclusive AI technologies.

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A young South African child astonished Mzansi by switching fluently between six official languages, drawing admiration and ...

The Prince of Wales has previously said that Africa “has always held a special place in my heart” Simon Perry is a writer and correspondent at PEOPLE. He has more than 25 years’ experience at PEOPLE ...

The use of blockchain and AI to improve various areas of society is essential in Africa now more than ever. Lucky Uwakwe, chairman of the Blockchain Industry Coordinating Committee of Nigeria (BICCoN) ...

Prince A. Williams ’25, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a History concentrator in Adams House. Before my sophomore year, I was terrified of deciding what foreign language to take. The idea of learning ...

Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words to text messages and scouring huge troves of information for answers to complex questions. At least, that is, so long as you speak ...