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Chinese smartphone maker TECNO Mobile says that its recently revamped chatbot can recognise 100 African languages, and hundreds more from across the globe. At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026, the ...

The underrepresentation of Indigenous African languages online has long been a challenge. In recent years, Africans have taken up the task of bridging this digital divide, recognizing the importance ...

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 ...

As the AI revolution transforms the digital world, millions of people on the African continent cannot tap its full promise because the languages they speak aren’t built into the large language models ...

LAGOS – Google has expanded its AI Overviews and AI Mode search tools to support 13 African languages in addition to English.The newly supported languages are Afrikaans (South Africa), Akan (Ghana), ...

AI models can’t understand African languages. Lelapa AI is trying to change that. Inside a co-working space in the Rosebank neighborhood of Johannesburg, Jade Abbott popped open a tab on her computer ...