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African Languages for AI – the Project That’s Gathering a Huge New Dataset

eriinfo.com2 months ago014 mins

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 languages are largely missing from the internet. A team of African computer scientists, linguists, language specialists and others have been working on precisely this problem for two…

Africa

Africa: How Untold Stories in African Languages Could Turn the Page On Publishing

eriinfo.com6 months ago08 mins

African stories and languages could unlock billions for the continent’s publishing industry if governments back local writers, a Unesco report has found. Africa’s book market, now worth $7 billion, could reach $18bn with more homegrown books in local languages. The African book industry, from authors to distributors and publishers, represents 5.4 percent of the global…