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A local AI startup that many people had never heard of a few years ago has just been acquired by one of Africa's leading technology companies. And it was not building another ChatGPT clone. It was teaching artificial intelligence how to sound Nigerian.
Okechukwu Nwaozor built an AI system. He was 17, just out of secondary school, and entirely self-taught. When he shared his plans on Facebook, the comments ranged from disbelief to outright mockery. Yet here he is today, leading a project that has captured the attention of developers across Africa and beyond.
A new chapter in the Africa’s AI story quietly began when Google unveiled WAXAL, an open-source speech dataset built to help computers understand and speak African languages. But this isn’t just another tech project. It’s a bridge between cutting-edge AI and the cultural and linguistic diversity of Africa, where more than 2,000 languages are spoken yet fewer than 5% have enough digital data to train modern language technologies.
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