Research
Our research teams advance speech and language intelligence for African languages, combining research, data, and engineering to develop the models, methods, and technologies needed to understand, generate, and support communication across Africa's linguistic diversity.
Speech Intelligence
The Speech Intelligence team advances the models and systems that enable machines to recognise, understand, and generate African speech, spanning speech recognition, synthesis, voice technologies, and multilingual speech processing.
ExploreLanguage Intelligence
The Language Intelligence team advances AI capabilities for understanding, processing, and generating African languages, including multilingual language modelling, natural language understanding, and text generation across diverse linguistic contexts.
ExploreLanguage Resources
The Language Resources team develops and curates datasets, corpora, benchmarks, and linguistic resources that support the development and evaluation of African language AI, with an emphasis on data quality, coverage, documentation, and reproducibility.
ExploreModel Intelligence
The Model Intelligence team explores model architectures, training and adaptation methods, evaluation, and optimisation to improve the capability, efficiency, and deployability of AI models for speech and language tasks.
ExploreResponsible AI
The Responsible AI team examines safety, fairness, privacy, robustness, and the societal implications of AI for African languages, helping shape approaches to building, evaluating, and deploying trustworthy systems across diverse communities.
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