The Federal Government has unveiled N-ATLAS, an open-source, multilingual and multimodal large language model that supports Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and Nigerian-accented English.<\/p>\n
Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, DrBosunTijani, who announced this in a statement on his X account on Saturday, stated that the artificial intelligence was launched on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York.<\/p>\n
According to the minister, N-ATLAS is developed to put African voices at the centre of AI development.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cStarting with Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and Nigerian-accented English, N-ATLAS places Africa\u2019s voices and diversity at the foundation of AI.<\/p>\n
“This is the first step in a broader journey to make Africa a contributor and leader in shaping AI\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the product description on its model card, N-ATLaS LLM features a speech-technology suite that includes language-specific automatic speech recognition models, which aid in transcription, accessibility, and local-language application.<\/p>\n
It can be used to build chatbots that answer citizen questions about government services in Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba or Nigerian-accented English.<\/p>\n
The ASR models can transcribe radio, TV or online videos into text and generate captions\/subtitles in the four local languages.<\/p>\n
Call-centre and voice assistant support can deploy ASR and LLM pipelines to capture caller speech in Nigerian accents, transcribe it and supply intent detection or automated replies.<\/p>\n
The model can also be used to summarise interviews conducted in local languages.<\/p>\n
The product was built by the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and partners, including Awarri Technologies, as part of Nigeria\u2019s language-AI initiative.<\/p>\n
The model documentation can be accessed on Hugging Face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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