The African Next Voices Workshop
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"AFRICA NEXT VOICES: Pilot Data Collection in Kenya" is a one year pilot project funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) aiming at data collection through the KenCorpus consortium of Universities with work distributed as follows: Maseno University: Dholuo and Somali, USIU: Maasai, Kabarak University: Kalenjin, Dedan Kimathi (DeKut) and LDRI: Kikuyu.
The purpose of the project is to support the establishment of a corpus of text and voice data for several local languages spoken in Kenya. The one year goal of the project is to collect voice data for 5 Kenyan languages: Dholuo, Gikuyu, Somali, Kalenjin (Nandi/Kipsigis dialects), Maasai.
The one day workshop has brought together Language Leads, Resource Persons and Technical experts.
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