Research Fellow Dr. Asmelash Teka discusses his work with Lesan.ai, a startup focused on providing a broad range of technology for languages used in Ethiopia and Eritrea. He presents here machine translation and automated speech recognition for Ge’ez based languages, and the need to keep data fuelling these technologies in the hands of people who speak these languages rather than a few multinational corporations.

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