From postponed tour to platform: Nkenne’s Zoom-fueled mission to preserve African languages

Economically, Nkenne sits at an interesting juncture. On one side is the language-learning app, aimed at individuals – both ...
CNN

Africa has thousands of languages. Can AI be trained on all of them?

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 ...

Want to learn a South African language? Your options are limited – here’s why

African languages should be promoted at a national rather than provincial level. Higher education institutions should develop ...
Phys.org

A roadmap to help AI technologies speak African languages

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 are ...
The Conversation

African languages for AI: the project that’s gathering a huge new dataset

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 ...
Princeton University

Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that.

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 ...