This podcast follows from the presentation at https://youtu.be/iPOFj4UUbHs. In this episode, we're joined by Josephine Zingani, an accomplished international development professional with extensive exp...

This podcast follows from the presentation at https://youtu.be/LxFUB3uvosw. In this episode, we're joined by Alexander Visheratin, AI researcher at Playground AI. In this talk, Alexander Visheratin exp...

In celebration of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, our esteemed guest, Zainab Abdullahi, a seasoned Nigerian medical lab scientist with extensive hands-on experience with TB patients, delves into the topic of tuberculosis in Africa. Join us as we e...

There is a lot of misunderstanding and hype surrounding AI, fueled by exaggerated marketing and capitalist motives. This episode features Kathryn Kure and Jonathan Poritz as we delve into 'AInt': their critical examination of AI. Togeth...

This podcast follows from the presentation at https://youtu.be/UN1pk2lvME8. In this episode, we're joined by Chisom Paula Ogamba, sociolinguist, discourse a...

This podcast follows from the presentation at https://youtu.be/B6ARayTDmz4. In this episode, we're joined by Brian Muhia, co-Founder of Fahamu Inc, and CTO ...

This podcast follows from the presentation at https://youtu.be/rV5bUikOe88. In this episode, we're joined by Opeyemi Osakuade, a PhD student at the Universi...

This podcast follows from the presentation at https://youtu.be/J9CNrw4OevQ. In this episode, we're joined by Lukman Enegi Ismaila, a machine learning engine...

This podcast follows from the presentation at https://youtu.be/F0Hrhu9-E-M. In this episode, we host Elizabeth Salesky, PhD student at Johns Hopkins University and ☕😀 caffeinated optimist. We discuss b...

This podcast follows from the presentation at https://youtu.be/1wqbhOIX6I4. In this episode, we host Favour James and discuss topics like healthcare patient data digitization, data accessibility and sh...

This conversation follows from the presentation at https://youtu.be/7RYG9X_VE-Y. In this podcast episode, we engage in a comprehensive discussion with Denise DiPersio (the Associate Director at the

This episode follows from the presentation at https://youtu.be/M0X53u9qBpk. In this podcast episode, we delve into a discussion with Graham Morrissey, COO at Wa...

This episode follows from the presentation at https://youtu.be/JoaZoy4fRPs. In this episode, we delve into a discussion with Professor Yoshua Bengio covering a ...

This episode follows from the presentation at https://youtu.be/z1ubta3RBp8. In this episode we chat with Paul Okewunmi where we navigate the synergy of research...

In the latest episode (Ep. 21) of Lanfrica Talks, we had the honor of hosting the seasoned Prof. Vukosi Marivate! 🤩 We delved into some captivating discussions about African language technologies, data sharing, and data governance. Vukosi share...

We were pleased to host Aidan Pine and Patrick Littell for episode 20 of our Lanfrica Talks. They motivated and presented ReadAlong Studio, an application for performing language zero-shot (L0-shot) text-speech alignment. The ReadAlong Studio W...

In this episode, Shester Gueuwou discusses his award-winning research on machine translation for African sign languages. He describes his journey into this research, including the hype surrounding sign language technologies and its negative imp...

In this episode, we host babs.ai, a personalized assistant service that prioritizes productivity and provides support for African users who communicate in low-resource languages. (think ChatGPT but ...

In this episode, Batazia's co-founder and CTO, Ndipabonga Atanga, discussed the development of speech recognition technology for African languages. She explored the exciting developments in speech recognition technology for African language...

In this episode, Ife Adebara takes us through the AfroLID toolkit project, a neural LID toolkit for 517 African languages and varieties. Language identification (LID) is a crucial precursor for NLP, especially for mining web data. Problematical...

Language Documentation (LD) has gained popularity in African linguistics in recent years, driven by efforts to conserve endangered languages and make language data more accessible. However, the impact of LD on African linguistics research is qu...

In this episode, we were joined by Shruti Rijhwani, a Research Scientist at Google and recent Ph.D. graduate from Carnegie Mellon University. Shruti's thesis focused on improving optical character recognition for endangered languages, and she s...

We were joined in this episode by Steven Kolawole, an independent machine learning researcher with the ML Collective, to discuss sign language in sub-Saharan Africa and his sign-to-speech project for sign language comprehension in Nigeria.-...

In today's episode, Lawrence Adu-Gyamfi who is the Director of Products and Research Scientist at GhanaNLP joined us, to talk about his personal research journey, his company's motivation, the scope of his work, and some of its contributions to...

Gašper Beguš an Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley where he directs the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab. Before coming to Berkeley, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, and before t...