Does your language have a digital future?
We speak hundreds of languages across the African continent.\nBut only a small number are represented on the internet.\nSo what future do the languages we speak at home and with our families have, if we cannot use them in a digital world?
This is where machine learning comes in, Artificial Intelligence. Because there are translation tools out there, built through Natural Language Processing (NLP), which can allow you to be understood anywhere in the world. But the data needed is complex and takes a long time to create.\nSo we brought together 3 women who work in this field and are \u2018language champions\u2019 for African languages \u2013 Salomey Osei from Ghana, Jade Abbott from South Africa, and Kathleen Siminyu from Kenya \u2013 to find out whether our African languages can have a digital future.