How Google wants to teach AI Africa’s 2,000 languages

TechCabal | 12.02.2026 20:33
When Abdoulaye Diack, program manager at Google Research, a division of Google dedicated to advancing the state of the art in computer science and applying those breakthroughs to real-world problems, talks about the origins of WAXAL, an open-source speech dataset from Google Research Africa, he begins with a single word.