Academia and Hyperscalers Building the Core Infrastructure for African Language AI
Recent announcements from academia, Google, and Microsoft highlight ongoing efforts to expand AI support for...
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Morocco Shakes up Rules for Legal Translators
Morocco's government pre-OKs major reform for judicial translators, updating the legal framework for the profession...
New Dataset for Low-Resource Kenyan Language Tackles AI Exclusion
Researchers use community engagement and crowdsourcing to build corpora for low-resource Kenyan languages to support...
Google Extends Voice AI Support for 15 More African Languages
The big tech company enables users in the region to use voice search, talk-to-type on...
Christian Elongue on Advancing the Language Industry in Africa
Christian Elongue on the need for localized solutions, professional development, and investment in language technology...
Association of Language Companies in Africa Launches to Unify Continent’s Industry
While regional organizations exist, and traditional hubs such as Egypt, Kenya, and South Africa continue...
The Masakhane Project Puts Africa on the Machine Translation Map
Over 60 contributors in 15 African countries are gathering data and developing machine translation models...
Winning the East and West African Markets in the United States and Abroad
Why localizing for the African continent and African immigrants in the US matters
Akorbi BPO Accelerates Growth with New Nairobi Facility
New facility in Nairobi, Kenya enables Akorbi to extend its reach in Africa’s emerging language...
SAP’s Globalization Chief Ferose V R Sees a Bright Future for Translation
Ferose V R, Head of Globalization at SAP, on the challenges and opportunities to be...