With the adve of new technologies, the next decade will be the decade of digital growth for sub-Saharan Africa. For the first time, more than half of the population of this region will have access to the Iernet, and artificial ielligence alone will be able to coribute up to 30 billion dollars to the economy of the couries of this region.
But to realize these numbers, all the tech gias from around the world need to come together, as Google has recely taken steps towards the digital growth of this region. Google recely added 15 native African languages to its voice search and translation; Native language voice search allows people to ieract with technology in the most common way.
According to Google, this update has led to an additional 300 million people in the region ieracting with technology in their native language. Google owes its progress to the path taken by artificial ielligence; The progress of artificial ielligence in rece years has led to such achievemes in the field of speech recognition and speech-to-text conversion.
AI models learn language the same way children are taught to learn; Speech recognition models are trained on data from multiple languages to convert speech to text in each language.
Google currely supports nearly 200 African languages in Gboard and 60 African languages in the translation section. The voice input of GBoard and “Vice Search” has also been significaly improved and has reached 25 African languages, and in the translation section, the number of African language eries has reached 13.
It is ieresting that Google is committed to invest 5.8 million dollars for the flourishing of the digital economy in this region; The investme aims to support AI skills and education across sub-Saharan Africa. More precisely, this funding will be used to equip workers and studes with basic skills in artificial ielligence and cyber security.
Google’s focus for the flourishing of the digital economy in the region is to ensure that all people in sub-Saharan Africa get the benefits of this flourishing.
