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 ...

Google has partnered with leading African research institutions to launch WAXAL, a large-scale open speech dataset designed ...

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 ...

Google has launched WAXAL, a large-scale AI speech dataset designed to support 21 African languages spoken by more than 100 ...

Google and several African research institutions have launched a new project called WAXAL to help artificial intelligence understand and speak African languages such as Hausa, Luganda, Yoruba, and ...

Audiences around the world are getting ready to see Black Panther and dive into the film’s fictional kingdom of Wakanda. Though the film’s setting is a work of fantasy, the cultural influences behind ...

Russell H Kaschula receives research funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF) and such funding is gratefully acknowledged. A history lecturer teaching a class about the history of the Xhosa ...

Learning a new foreign language can be very beneficial and you can try starting with the following easiest African languages to learn. This is useful if you plan to travel to Africa or you are just ...

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, ...

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 ...