Paul Azunre Has Been Building AI for Ghanaian Languages —And It’s Not Been An Easy Journey

This deep dive focuses on the challenges faced by Dr. Paul Azunre and his team at Ghana NLP in developing Artificial Intelligence tools for Ghanaian and other African languages. Despite limited funding and a lack of institutional support, they have successfully built machine translation and speech systems for various languages, often with fewer resources than their international counterparts. A key issue highlighted is the tendency of some large corporations to exploit the concept of "open source" to gain data and effort from African developers without providing adequate compensation, an approach that is fundamentally incompatible with the financial realities in Ghana.Read all our stories at labarijournal.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.