Google & African Institutions Launch New Project

[IT News Africa - Africa] - 2/02/2026

Google and a consortium of leading African research institutions announced the launch of WAXAL, a large-scale, openly accessible speech dataset designed to catalyze research and build more inclusive AI technologies. The WAXAL dataset was developed over three years with funding from Google; the (…)

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