
Google Unveils WAXAL Speech Dataset, Expands AI Support for Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo Google has launched WAXAL, a large-scale open speech dataset designed to improve artificial intelligence tools for African languages, with particular focus on widely spoken Nigerian languages such as Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo. Developed in partnership with African research institutions, the
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Atiku Under Fire Over anti-Yoruba, Igbo Comment Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, has come under fire for urging Northerners to support him in the 2023 election because he is a northerner. In an address to the Arewa Joint Committee in Kaduna on Saturday, Atiku urged his audience not to back a
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