40,000 voices, 500 Accents. 24 New Languages. Intron Sahara-v2 Sets the Standard for African Voice AI Built on 14 million+…
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The 2025 AI for African Languages Conference brought together researchers, practitioners, and innovators in natural language processing to address one…
Benin has launched the “JaimeMaLangue” (LoveMyLanguage) project in Cotonou, an initiative designed to integrate artificial intelligence into the country’s digital…
The Ministry of Digital Transition, Posts and Electronic Communications of Burkina Faso has signed a landmark agreement with Radio and…
The GSMA, together with a coalition of major technology and telecom partners, has announced a continent-wide collaboration to strengthen Africa’s…
The GSMA has announced two major initiatives aimed at closing Africa’s digital divide — one focused on smartphone affordability and…
In a continent where more than 40 million small and medium enterprises (SMEs) remain offline, Nigerian startup Kofounda is breaking…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has unveiled N-ATLAS, an open-source multilingual and multimodal large language model designed to support Yoruba,…
MTN Group has pledged support for Nigeria’s effort to collect African language datasets to develop the continent’s own large language…
A team of African researchers has unveiled African Next Voices, the largest known AI-ready dataset for African languages, aiming to…