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Toucan TTS: MIT licensed Text to Speech in 7000 languages! 🔥 The most multilingual open-source TTS model out there ⚡ Step 1: They built a text frontend that can turn text in any language from the ISO-639-3 list into language-agnostic articulatory features. Step 2: Then,

Did you know? African Union & AUDA-NEPAD , with partners, designed a draft roadmap and continental AI strategy for responsible AI adoption in Africa towards AU Agenda 2063. We make such important policy documents discoverable and more impactful: lanfrica.com/records?tag=AU…

We're excited to launch Inkuba LM 4.0B, the first small language model for IsiZulu, Yoruba, Hausa, Swahili, and IsiXhosa. InkubaLM is specially designed to support African languages and promote linguistic diversity in AI. Try it out: lnkd.in/dA6aSPCf #InkubaLM

Help us reach our goal to send Masakhane community members to the Deep Learning Indaba taking place in Septermber! We're aiming to secure flights and lodging by August 20th. Share widely 📷 masakhane.io/events/masakha… Reach out to Ndapewa Onyothi Chris Chinenye Emezue

Mila is in Dakar for the Deep Learning Indaba! This weekend, a delegation of Mila representatives is flying to Dakar to take part in the prestigious Deep Learning Indaba where they will present their innovative research and participate in a mentorship program. #DLI2024 #Indaba2024

Meet Mila at Indaba 2024! Swing by our booth to discuss with our students and discover the amazing projects we’re working on and don't forget to check out Mila students' poster presentations on Sept 4th and 5th. #MilaxIndaba #Indaba2024

Join my lab! I’m currently recruiting new students (MSc & PhD) for admission in the fall of 2025 at Mila - Institut québécois d'IA mila.quebec/en/prospective… Are you interested in multilingual NLP? I would encourage you to apply. Deadline: December 1

The NaijaVoices speech dataset is here, with tremendous love from the NaijaVoices community ❤️❤️❤️ I'm so proud of the huge community effort that went into making this possible. Can't wait for the wonderful things we unlock with this resource.

Happy New Year 2025 from Lanfrica! Thank you for an amazing 2024 where we advanced our mission of creating and connecting language resources for the under-represented: we launched NaijaVoices, connected 1000+ resources on Lanfrica Records & expanded data farming to 3 countries.

We are excited to participate in the 'Inclusion & Diversity in AI' at #AAAI2025! Join us Feb 28, 2-4pm ET in Philly for discussions. Open to all, free, w/networking.

🚀 #LitLLM demo is live! Try it here: litllm.onrender.com New features: • Export BibTeX citations • Add paper via URL Feedback welcome! GitHub: github.com/litllm/litllm Google Form: forms.gle/8WkULP6eho6zTq… Email: [email protected] Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.15249

🎉🎉Proud to share that our research paper, "Beyond Monolingual Limits: Fine-Tuning Monolingual ASR for Yoruba-English Code-Switching," has been accepted at the Linguistic Code-Switching Workshops (W-CALCS) Workshop NAACL #NAACL2025

Exciting webinar coming up! Join Chris Chinenye Emezue as he dives into building intelligent, reliable AI systems for low-resource languages in Africa. 🎯 Research Methodologies in AI/ML/NLP: Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning Don’t miss this! #AfricaNLP #AIResearch #LyngualLabs

We are proud to announce the Language Heritage Micro-Grant, a national call for proposals to support community-driven projects that build, enrich, and conserve Nigeria’s linguistic diversity. Learn more and apply: lanfrica.com/blog/call-for-… Nigeria boasts more than 500

Join us for a landmark event, on 9th July, celebrating the preservation and revitalization of Nigeria's rich linguistic diversity in the digital age. The NaijaVoices Language Heritage Seminar brings together language advocates, researchers, and community leaders to honor the