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African languages should be promoted at a national rather than provincial level. Higher education institutions should develop ...

Economically, Nkenne sits at an interesting juncture. On one side is the language-learning app, aimed at individuals – both ...

African indigenous language advocates, linguists and volunteers are pushing ahead with making digital platforms and online content more accessible in local languages. Main Languages of the internet: ...

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From text-generating ChatGPT to voice-activated Siri, artificial intelligence-powered tools are designed to aid our everyday life—as long as you speak a language they support. These technologies are ...

At least, that is, so long as you speak English or another of the world's dominant languages. But try talking to your phone in Yoruba, Igbo or any number of widely spoken African languages and you'll ...

Two of South Africa’s main languages, Zulu and Xhosa, will be made available on Duolingo, one of the most popular language-learning apps and websites. But creating them will take longer than usual, ...

The French, English, Portuguese and Spanish colonisers violently imposed their languages on the African population; languages which are still used in the vast majority of institutions on the continent ...

Despite speech increasingly becoming one of the main ways people interact with devices, voice technology remains largely closed off to Africa’s languages, accents, and speech patterns. Case in point: ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words to text messages and scouring huge troves of information for answers to complex questions. At least, that is, ...