The South African-built tool helping the world’s under-resourced languages enter the AI age

Developed to address the shortage of digital data for African languages, the award-winning open-source TextAugment software ...
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 ...
SiliconANGLE

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

When people talk about artificial intelligence and language, the focus usually defaults to English, a handful of European languages and perhaps a few from Asia. African languages – thousands of them, ...
Devex

Exclusive: Donors commit $10M to include African languages in AI models

The Gates Foundation and other donors from the AI for Development Funders Collaborative are pledging $10 million to ensure AI models are more inclusive of African languages. Devex spoke with experts ...
The Conversation

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

It’s 50 years since the Soweto uprising in South Africa. On 16 June 1976, tens of thousands of young black South Africans protested against being taught in the Afrikaans language (alongside English) ...