In the last 5 years, the availability of large audio datasets in African countries has opened
unlimited opportunities to build machine intelligence (MI) technologies that are closer to the …

Large language models (LLMs) are at the forefront of transforming numerous domains
globally. However, their inclusivity and effectiveness remain limited for non-Latin scripts and …

Foundation models are increasingly ubiquitous in our daily lives, used in everyday tasks
such as text-image searches, interactions with chatbots, and content generation. As use …

Language identification is used as the first step in many data collection and crawling efforts
because it allows us to sort online text into language-specific buckets. However, many …

Recent advances in pre-training of word embeddings and language models leverage large
amounts of unlabelled texts and self-supervised learning to learn distributed representations …

Kinyarwanda, as one of the official languages of Rwanda plays a significant role in the
country's cultural, educational, and administrative domains. With the increasing demand for …