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Researchers Release Largest-Ever African-Language AI Dataset, Earn ACL 2026 Best Paper Nomination

A multi-institutional research initiative called the African Languages Lab has published the largest validated speech-and-text dataset for African languages to date, spanning 40 languages and 19 billion tokens, in a paper accepted as a long oral presentation with a Best Paper Nomination at ACL 2026.

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South Africa

Researchers Release Largest-Ever African-Language AI Dataset, Earn ACL 2026 Best Paper Nomination

Google Launches Africa's First Applied AI Lab in Accra, Unveils Continent-Wide Cloud and AI Push

South African Banks Report Enterprise AI Has Moved From Pilot to Scale, CNBC Africa Summit Hears

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