Google Partners African Universities to Launch WAXAL Speech Dataset

AI becomes more inclusive with African language foundations

Google and a consortium of African research institutions announced the launch of WAXAL, a large-scale, openly accessible speech dataset designed to catalyse research and build more inclusive AI technologies. The dataset bridges a critical digital divide for over 100-million speakers by providing foundational data for 21 sub-Saharan African languages, including Hausa, Luganda, Yoruba, and Acholi. While voice-enabled technologies have become commo…

Google launches speech dataset for African languages

Google has collaborated with African universities and research institutions to launch WAXAL, an open-source speech database designed to support the development of voice-based artificial intelligence for African languages.  African institutions, including Makerere University in Uganda, the University of Ghana, Digital Umuganda in Rwanda, and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), participated in the data collection for this initi…

Google Backs AI Training in Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo - Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business

Google, in collaboration with a consortium of African universities and research institutions, has launched WAXAL, a large-scale open speech dataset designed to help artificial intelligence systems better understand and process African languages. The initiative targets one of the most persistent challenges in AI development on the continent: the lack of high-quality language data for African speech systems. Despite Africa being home to more than …

Google Partners African Universities to Launch WAXAL Speech Dataset

By Modupe Gbadeyanka A speech dataset designed to catalyze research and build more inclusive Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies has been launched by Google in partnership with a consortium of leading African research institutions, which are mainly universities. The main universities involved in the project known as WAXAL are Makerere University in Uganda, the University of […]

Google unveils WAXAL to amplify African voices in AI

Google unveils WAXAL to amplify African voices in AI. Google, partnering leading African research institutions, has launched a project to....

Google partners African universities to launch WAXAL, a dataset of African languages

Google has partnered with universities in Africa to launch a large dataset of African languages, to ensure representation of the continent's languages in AI systems.