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Microsoft, Gates Foundation, and Google are funding projects to bring thousands of underrepresented African languages into the digital age. The initiative offers up to $250,000 per project to build AI tools that work in local languages.
Ghana is building a $250 million AI Computing Centre to become Africa's innovation leader, ensuring the technology reflects African languages and culture. President Mahama commits an additional $20 million to launch the nation's 10-year AI strategy focused on human-centered growth.
A new free tool lets teachers and creators build educational video games without coding skills, starting with African languages. The Educational Game Format could unlock thousands of culturally relevant learning games worldwide.
A Lagos startup just launched voice recognition technology that finally gets African languages right. Sahara v2 could transform how millions access healthcare, banking, and legal services.
Google just released 11,000 hours of speech data covering 21 African languages, tackling one of AI's biggest blind spots. The free dataset helps AI finally understand the continent's voices, accents, and the 2,000+ languages most people speak but don't write.
Google just handed ownership of a massive African language dataset to African universities and researchers, not keeping it for itself. The move could help millions finally speak to AI in their own languages.
While big tech ignores most African languages, Morocco is building AI that actually speaks to the continent. The country's new minister is training chatbots in Darija, Amazigh, and dozens more languages that have been left behind.
Google partnered with African universities to create WAXAL, an open-source speech database covering 21 Sub-Saharan African languages. The dataset gives developers the tools to build voice assistants, translation apps, and AI systems that finally speak the languages of more than a billion people.
Over 100 million Africans can now access voice technology in their own languages thanks to a groundbreaking new dataset. Google partnered with African universities to create WAXAL, putting language data ownership directly in local hands.