Abstract: Communication barriers between hard-of-hearing and hearing individuals can be mitigated through advancements in sign language recognition (SLR) systems. These SLR systems can also improve ...

For many African languages there are few written resources online that can be used to train AI. The African Next Voices project is trying to change that by recording underrepresented languages and ...

Developing AI systems that operate effectively across languages while remaining culturally grounded is a long-standing challenge, particularly in low-resource settings. Synthetic data provides a ...

Voice-based technologies are essential to cater to the hundreds of millions of new smartphone users. However, most of the languages spoken by these new users have little to no labelled speech data.

Agenda 2063 is the blueprint and master plan for transforming Africa into the global powerhouse of the future. It is the strategic framework for delivering on Africa’s goal for inclusive and ...

Background: The performance of a classification algorithm eventually reaches a point of diminishing returns, where the additional sample added does not improve the results. Thus, there is a need to ...

Immigration and the Ethiopian Citizenship Service (ICS) launched today the Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS) Phase II project that aims to further strengthen Ethiopia's border ...

A new report from the University of Liverpool and the United Nations Migration Agency–International Organization for ...

Ethiopia remains firmly committed to supporting the development of a strong, modern and integrated African statistical system ...

ADDIS ABABA -- The United Nations Chinese Language Day was celebrated on Friday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, aiming to promote cultural exchanges and strengthen development cooperation between ...

Understanding how large language models (LLMs) process emotionally sensitive content is critical for building safe and reliable systems, particularly in mental health contexts. We compare the ...