IEEE

Sign Language Recognition—Dataset Cleaning for Robust Word Classification in a Landmark-Based Approach

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 ...

Africa has thousands of languages. Can AI be trained on all of them?

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 ...
IEEE

Novel Preprocessing Technique for Data Embedding in Engineering Code Generation Using Large Language Model

Abstract: We introduce four principal contributions to augment the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in generating domain-specific code: (i) leveraging LLM-based data splitting and data ...
Microsoft

Crowdsourcing Speech Data for Low-Resource Languages from Low-Income Workers

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.
African Union

Executive Committee of SHaSA II Convenes in Addis Ababa to Drive Data Harmonization for Agenda 2063

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 ...