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The lead storyOpinion9 min readHLlama: Building AI That Speaks the Language of Togolese Women, With Them and Not Just For ThemHLlama is a conversational AI assistant that lives inside WhatsApp and answers Togolese women's questions about reproductive and maternal health, in French, Éwé, Kabyè or Mina. Why we build it with the communities we serve, not just for them.Read more

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YodiV3: NLP for Togolese Languages with the Eyaa-Tom Dataset and the Lom Metric

Presents Eyaa-Tom, a multi-domain parallel corpus for ten Togolese languages and two lingua francas, and introduces the Lom metric to quantify each language's AI readiness.

By Umbaji research team

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Eyaa-Tom: “Words of the people” in Kabiyè

A corpus collected in the field by a community of linguists and native annotators, designed to cover real domains: health, administration, everyday conversation.

By Community of linguists, researchers and Umbaji annotators

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Yodi: The Speech Recognition System for Ewè

Describes the architecture of the first speech recognition system for Ewè, built on word-to-waveform mapping and convolutional neural network classifiers.

By Umbaji research team