The Rise of African-Built AI Models Trained in Local Languages and Why it Matters

Early this year, Google collaborated with African partners to launch WAXAL, a large-scale, openly accessible speech dataset aimed at addressing the persistent digital divide affecting African languages in artificial intelligence systems. Some of the newly supported languages include Kiswahili, Somali, Afrikaans, Akan, Amharic, Hausa, Kinyarwanda, Afaan Oromo, Sesotho, Wolof, Yoruba, and IsiZulu.

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