Lelapa AI is adding text-to-speech to its product line and preparing to take its language technology outside Africa, chief executive…
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The International Organization of La Francophonie has held its first Forum on Digital Governance in Geneva, adding a language-based layer…
African languages will not survive by being preserved in books, archives and cultural memory alone. They have to be used…
Nigerian voice AI company Intron has released Sahara v2.5, adding support for speakers who switch between English and an African…
Twenty-six projects have been selected under LINGUA Africa, covering more than 50 African languages, dialects and sign languages spoken by…
Inconsistent responses from leading AI chatbots on politically sensitive topics risk eroding public trust and complicating Africa’s emerging AI governance…
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Rector of the United Nations University Professor Tshilidzi Marwala warned against relying on probabilistic AI systems…
Artificial intelligence systems trained largely on foreign datasets risk perpetuating racial bias and undermining South Africa’s transformative constitutional vision if…
Africa must move beyond being merely a consumer of artificial intelligence and instead become an active global force in creating,…
Malawi is poised for a major step into the artificial intelligence era after the World Bank, with support from the…