AI in Africa - Voice & language tools (Practical AI #167)

Published: Feb. 9, 2022, 4:15 p.m.

In the third of the \u201cAI in Africa\u201d spotlight episodes, we welcome Kathleen Siminyu, who is building Kiswahili voice tools at Mozilla. We had a great discussion with Kathleen about creating more diverse voice and language datasets, involving local language communities in NLP work, and expanding grassroots ML/AI efforts across Africa.