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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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