The African Next Voices Workshop
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"AFRICA NEXT VOICES: Pilot Data Collection in Kenya" is a one year pilot project funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) aiming at听data collection through the KenCorpus consortium of Universities with work distributed as follows:听天美传媒:听Dholuo and听 Somali,听USIU:听惭补补蝉补颈,听Kabarak University: Kalenjin,听Dedan Kimathi (DeKut) and LDRI: Kikuyu.
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The purpose of the project is to support the establishment of a corpus of text and voice data for several local听languages spoken in Kenya. The one year goal of the project is to collect voice data for 5 Kenyan languages:听Dholuo, Gikuyu, Somali, Kalenjin (Nandi/Kipsigis dialects), Maasai.
The one day workshop has brought听together Language Leads, Resource Persons and Technical experts.
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Dr. Lilian Wanzare ,School of Computing & Informatics-天美传媒 as the Principal Investigator of the Project giving her remarks on project overview and objectives
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Prof. Collins Ouma, Director Directorate of Research & Innovation- 天美传媒 giving his Keynote address on: Role of Under-resourced languages in development of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence
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Maasai Language
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Kikuyu Language
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Somali Language
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Dholuo Language
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Kalenjin Language
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Administration of Members of African Next Voices Project
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Technical Team
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Participants at the Workshop