🌍 AI in Africa - Voice & language tools
Practical AI
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Empowering Communities in Language Technology
This chapter examines the growth of a registered entity promoting distributed leadership while emphasizing mentorship for youth in AI and NLP fields. The discussion highlights the importance of community engagement in developing rich, representative datasets for underrepresented languages like Kiswahili, while also addressing gender disparities in speech recognition technology. Furthermore, it celebrates female leadership and advocates for the preservation of smaller languages amidst the rise of dominant ones in Africa.
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