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AI programs often exclude African languages. These researchers have a plan to fix that.
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAfrican languages are severely underrepresented in services like Alexa, Siri, and ChatGPT. There are...
This scientist is integrating AI technology with over 500 African languages
CBC via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIfe Adebara is on a mission to make technology accessible to all people in the African continent —...
Detroit artist uses iron, rock, mirrors, wood to share knowledge of African heritage
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoTo restore the African Language Wall, Dabls has used recycled materials from old homes and accepted...
Meta’s AI can now translate more African languages, helping create a more inclusive internet
Quartz· 2 years agoThe plan is expected to look into 55 of Africa's marginalized languages and improve how AI machines...
Google’s $1 billion Africa investment is anchored on the ‘spirit of Ubuntu’
Quartz via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoThe Ubuntu philosophy, which was supposed to pivot pan Africanism, has struggled to become a...
Students cheer as online translation tools add more African languages
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoUgandan IT student Andrew Njuki spent years hunched over English-language textbooks, often grappling...
Ghana’s most popular language will be available to more people online
Quartz via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoIn Ghana where English is the official language for education and commerce, four in five people...
Costa Titch: the rising white South African rap star who embraced black hip-hop culture
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOupa Bopape/Gallo Images via Getty ImagesRising 28-year-old South African dancer and rapper Costa...
Kiswahili: how a standard version of the east African language was formed – and spread across the...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJasmin Merdan/Getty ImagesKiswahili originated in east Africa, spreading around the continent and...
A trip to Africa inspired a restaurant. What to expect — and what you must try — at Latha
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEvelia Davis opened Latha — Swahili for flavor — at Heritage Square in April to bring a taste of...