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Founder @GhanaNLP @algorineinc | Book Author | Machine Learning Research | 🎵 Creator @isolirium @drpushkinmc | opinions my own 😏
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Quick demo of the voice to voice translation between English and Twi that you can try today on our web app.
This one is from the perspective of a tourist visiting Ghana and needing to get around.
Brought to you by the amazing team at
@GhanaNLP
@algorineinc
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So proud of my boys!!!! 💯🙌🏾🤘🏾🙏🏾 One more contest to go, you got this!!!!
End of Contest
Opoku Ware School: 55pts
Accra Academy: 38pts
Boa Amponsem SHS: 22pts
AKATAKYIE! Well done!
#NSMQSemifinals
#NSMQ2020
#Primetime
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No long talk. 🤫 humility, focus & trust in the process 👊🏾 👊🏾 👊🏾
OPOKU WARE SCHOOL!!
Deus Lux Scientiae - God is the light of knowledge and no Demon can quench it!
Finals for the SANTAMERICA boys!
#NSMQ2023
#NSMQ30
#NSMQSemifinals
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These were some of the best days ever 😊 preparing and participating in that show a huge part of who I became, very grateful to them... So many kids elevated through their work!! 👏🏾
"That is correct!"
Relive the NSMQ 2002 Semifinal: A Paul Azunre Masterclass.
Full video:
Join in our Instagram Live chat with Dr.
@pazunre
at 6pm tonight via
#NSMQ2020
#Primetime
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@jeffwellz
Thanks for the kind comments 😊
Please help us at
@GhanaNLP
to develop AI for Ghanaian languages by testing our translation AI product:
It includes Twi, Ga, Ewe, Dagbani, Gurene. Fante soon to be outdoored.
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We present you the world’s Best Twi Text to Speech System. Made by Ghanaians for Ghanaians. Try it today.
We are thrilled to announce a massive update to our Text-To-Speech (TTS) model for Twi! We are confident it is the best Twi TTS there now! Give it a listen and see if you agree!
Sign up for our API and incorporate it into your products today! 🙏🏾 (link in bio)
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For every Ghanaian Rasta subject to unlawful stops & harassment by the police, berated by strangers over a hair style choice (why don’t they just mind their own business?), & otherwise shunned by society… Thank you for making them bleed 🩸 😊 I am here for every drop 🍿 😂
Odds against odds. 8As bagged!! 🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳. We did it family; we made it! 🥳🥳🎉
#tyronemarhguy
,
#achimotaschool
,
#achimotarasta
,
#wassce
,
#8As
,
#NSMQ2023
,
#WASSCE
,
#WASSCE2023
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You do realize one of the contestants is in form 1? 👀 👀 And they made it to the semi finals?? Has that even happened before in the history of the contest 😏 Relax my guy, I am impressed 👊🏾 😃
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Chale none of them retweet saf 😢 Our country is finished, our media has no hope 🤷🏾♂️
#complicit
Hey
@Citi973
@PulseGhana
@tv3_ghana
@TheGhanaWeb
@JoyNewsOnTV
@citinewsroomgh
is everything you are covering today more important than this? Do the needful & support ur people to innovate & improve our condition. Retweet my people, let's see if there is any hope for our media ✌️🏾
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Hey
@Citi973
@PulseGhana
@tv3_ghana
@TheGhanaWeb
@JoyNewsOnTV
@citinewsroomgh
is everything you are covering today more important than this? Do the needful & support ur people to innovate & improve our condition. Retweet my people, let's see if there is any hope for our media ✌️🏾
We have experimented with building LLMs for our languages, and now have an early prototype of “ChatGPT for Twi, Ewe, Ga, Dagbani, Gurene, Kikuyu, Luo, Yoruba, Meru…”
Want to be one of the first to demo it for your language? Comment your language below for a private demo
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Hey
@NSMQGhana
your alums are often criticized for lacking practical impact on society. Share this innovation by an alum to prove them wrong 😉
We have experimented with building LLMs for our languages, and now have an early prototype of “ChatGPT for Twi, Ewe, Ga, Dagbani, Gurene, Kikuyu, Luo, Yoruba, Meru…”
Want to be one of the first to demo it for your language? Comment your language below for a private demo
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Hey
@wode_maya
- here is a chance to help your people innovate and create a better future. This is the biggest story you are not covering. Please, respond and let's do this. Help me reach bossman by retweeting please 👊🏾
We have experimented with building LLMs for our languages, and now have an early prototype of “ChatGPT for Twi, Ewe, Ga, Dagbani, Gurene, Kikuyu, Luo, Yoruba, Meru…”
Want to be one of the first to demo it for your language? Comment your language below for a private demo
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No AI company wanted to hire me, said I "didn't have experience" 🤣 and my PhD in Mathematical Optimization "was irrelevant" 🤣 I called some startup and had a job the next day. Think bigger than the popular corps, they artificially inflate standards cuz they can afford it
@DevCongress
I think
@pazunre
was saying something about not being hired even after getting his Ph.D. can he get into that?
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Opoku Ware School
@Akatakyie
, Kumerica, Early June 2022 ✌🏾 Ain’t worried about the next gen 👊🏾
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We have built a “ChatGPT for African languages” (at least those already on our platform). Comment on the
@GhanaNLP
post if you want a private demo
We might release it early next year to the public after a period of internal tests
We have experimented with building LLMs for our languages, and now have an early prototype of “ChatGPT for Twi, Ewe, Ga, Dagbani, Gurene, Kikuyu, Luo, Yoruba, Meru…”
Want to be one of the first to demo it for your language? Comment your language below for a private demo
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Shameless. This year we have a chance to pick something better. Or will we - once again - elect clowns and be surprised by the circus that unfolds? 🧐 🤨 rhetorical smh
Scholarship: I have met students who told me they paid GBP3,000 to the Secretariat for a GBP40,000 scholarship
- Sulemana Issifu [Research Fellow, Hans Ruthenberg Institute, University of Hohenheim, Germany]
#Newsfile
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Look at what came in the mail! After 2 yrs of work, it is surreal to finally hold a hardcopy of my 1st book 😅😀😊🤪😎😍Hard copies available in a week from
@ManningBooks
(link in bio), on Amazon, B&N etc. in 2-3 weeks, eBooks out now!
#NLProc
#ArtificialIntelligence
#GPT3
(1/n)
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If African AI/ML researchers are not careful, this new “Open Source” movement championed by the richest global tech companies will become a mechanism for continued exploitation of our human capital and continent… [1/3] 🧵
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So these orgs waste your time for years with proposals, never fund you, never even provide feedback… but now all of a sudden want my expertise for free to help with their RFP?😂
Y’all shameless for real. I know Africans respecting themselves is new to you, but get used to it
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Experimenting with adding image capabilities to
@GhanaNLP
@algorineinc
Khaya app to make it fully multimodal. Imagine learning African languages simply by taking pictures of your environment. Here are some Twi and Gurene examples (many thanks
@danyorigya
for the Gurene example🙏🏾
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Went on
@CitiTVGH
Breakfast Daily show this morning to advocate for Technological Independence in the sphere of AI / ML - with its national & cultural security implications for our society. Snippet attached, watch the whole thing at
@GhanaNLP
@algorineinc
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The clarity of the presentation 👏🏾 👌🏽 remember Khaya is not perfect (use with care) - but it will improve quickly. Also remember our goal is to do this for all of our languages and the app already handles several (minus the voice generation)
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Don Quixote? a futile lonely thankless quest, destined for an early grave? 😂 💀 ☠️ Either way, I guarantee it is an interesting ride though 🙌🏾🤣🤪
@restofworld
(link in first comment)
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Responding to terrorism with terrorism makes you a terrorist.
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My book “Transfer Learning for NLP” is the
#1
☝🏾 new release on Amazon in its category 🥺Just wanted to say a massive “thank u” to my network for the support, I am truly grateful 🙏🏾 😊 still on the fence about getting a copy?U know what to do 😉 LINK IN BIO
@ManningBooks
#ai
#ml
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@everymovieplug
“onyankopɔn yɛ nyansa hann” 😂
Download “Khaya” on all platforms here 👉🏾👉🏾
@GhanaNLP
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Another one came to ask for our data for free 😂 😂 Chale I go start slapping people oo yooo 🤣 The audacity!!
So these orgs waste your time for years with proposals, never fund you, never even provide feedback… but now all of a sudden want my expertise for free to help with their RFP?😂
Y’all shameless for real. I know Africans respecting themselves is new to you, but get used to it
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Yep. Sign up and get going right now ✌️🏾😉
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Dev Congress Space on Monday, come ask any questions about our work with African NLP 🙏🏾 🙏🏾 🙏🏾
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Speech recognition for Twi & Yoruba is now available in the Khaya app for Android and iOS. Speak to your phone to transcribe speech to text, translate to English, copy the text for use in WhatsApp, on social media etc. 1/n
#nlproc
#machinetranslation
#speechrecognition
@GhanaNLP
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I went into Lang Tech & NLP initially 3 yrs ago to build tools for my Dad’s language - Gurene/Frafra - which I never had chance to learn. Our team
@algorineinc
working w
@GureneWikimedia
&
@GhanaNLP
has built the World’s 1st machine translation system for Gurene 😊
@danyorigya
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The first version of the
@GhanaNLP
@algorineinc
Text To Speech in Twi is out now on our web app 🤩 Link inside video (see top). Mad props to
@ladu_gyamfi
and
@J0eBee
for pushing it over the finish line 🏁 👊🏾 Let us know your experience with it 🙏🏾 😊 Tell a friend 🚀
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@Rocstarsupanova
If you have better options for him than what you have described, by all means do share. Please tell us all how he should live his life and make the most impact for Ghana, since you know better than everyone how to do it, we are listening
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Stay tuned. We have the Twi TExt to Speech model and are currently putting it in production 🙏🏾
big man
@pazunre
I wish khaya was able to pronounce translations or it's available in pro version 😅
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Who knew African MLers can turn up like this…. Sheeeshhh 🔥 🔥
@DeepIndaba
@asmelashteka
if the opening party is anything to go by, it should be a great week ahead👏🏾 👏🏾
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They will use you, abuse you, chew you up and spit you out. Then claim credit for your accomplishments. Epic 👏🏾
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, Penn’s historic mRNA vaccine research team, win 2023
@NobelPrize
in Medicine
#nobelprize
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The face you make when a native Yoruba speaker comes up to you in a crowded & loud
@DeepIndaba
conversation hall, speaks to the Khaya app by
@GhanaNLP
and the app gets ASR + translation 100% right 😏
Link to try it out yourself on any platform in comments
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Wow! 🤩 Too many great experiences, too much African talent. We got this 💪🏾
#ICLR2023
Kigali 🇷🇼
@GhanaNLP
@lesan_ai
@MasakhaneNLP
@iclr_conf
@black_in_ai
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@ErasmusAgbo
🤔 I am still alive 😂 so no, but he is Stephen and he is already a legend in his own right 😉
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The universe owes you nothing and acts like it
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LOL so u can continue to steal our ideas, never provide any feedback, & continue to exploit us? Nah boo, we have nothing to prove - fund us & let’s work together, or take a long walk. African Researchers - the today’s colonialism looks different from yesterday, don’t fall for it
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This talk is available for replay now if you couldn’t join live
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Plan early and sign up for this important session before all the spots are taken
@GhanaNLP
- signup link in poster. See you at the
@ghdatascience
Indabax summit in a couple weeks
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@Kingg_boat
Like them go throw me jail inside long time. When at home I can’t go from point A to point B without getting harassed by police.
It is pretty sad
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Try Khaya today and support local innovation 👊🏾 👊🏾
@eben_offen
Khaya from
@GhanaNLP
translates it as "computer technician" which is still a suitable answer given that not all the concepts are expressible in the language yet.
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You all are getting played like a fiddle and are loving it. Pathetic.
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Elections are coming. Remember all these statements in the day. Yo!!!
Wait, What?! I don’t believe this..this definitely must be fake or his words have been twisted..hmm but the fact that some part of me still believes that he’s capable of saying this is a problem..
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Ch5 of "Transfer Learning for NLP" serves as a quick intro to the Transformers library by
@huggingface
- we apply it to several tasks including cross lingual transfer learning (English->Twi) in context of trending architectures such as BERT & GPT.
#transformers
#NLProc
@GhanaNLP
#Transformers
: The most important architecture for NLP today?
Ch 5 "Deep Transfer Learning for NLP with Transformers" is new to Transfer Learning for Natural Language Processing
@ManningBooks
@pazunre
#datascience
#NLProc
#deeplearning
#ML
#AI
#NLP
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Squaaaadd 🤩 🔥 🔥 😃
@DeepIndaba
@GhanaNLP
@moorekwesi
@asmelashteka
@Imma_Agbeli
@abigaildat
@DAIRInstitute
👊🏾 👊🏾
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How does a Fortune 100 company build a highly valuable model on the back of data we put out for free (because none of u would fund us!) then have the audacity to reach out after the fact and require proposal submission before **maybe** giving us some laughable coins 😂 😂… [2/3]
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Grateful for every chance to meet my guys Atsu and
@moorekwesi
to discuss the future of AI / NLP in Ghana cc
@ghananlp
@algorineinc
Who wants to get one of these new t-shirts to support our mission?🧐
@abigaildat
designed them 🤩
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Name time and place 🙏🏾
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In a paper to appear in PML4DC at ICLR & co-authored with
@timnitGebru
&
@asmelashteka
of
@lesan_ai
, we investigate the quality of their models & test their claims. [4/n]
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Ghana 🇬🇭 see you tomorrow at 9am on
@CitiTVGH
to chat about Language AI in general, and what we are doing to advance it at
@GhanaNLP
@algorineinc
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Thanks Mark Smith of
@A1RadioBolga
for this Interview (link in last tweet)
Excerpts:
“We looked around and did not see any of the big tech companies building tools for our languages. We had to start doing something because it felt like ..we were falling behind on this.” (1/n)
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@Kwabena_Asabere
@jeffwellz
They are playing the long game my guy, and trying something different. I applaud that 👏🏾
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Check out the live interview we did on
@tv3_ghana
New Day with
@FlavaFlavswife
even got to take a pic with
@berlamundi
👀 😃 😊 Make you check it out, we discussed AI,
@GhanaNLP
@algorineinc
innovation Khaya AI 🙌🏾 the hottest thing in the Ghana tech ecosystem now 😉 🔥 🔥 🔥
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A major AI conf - ICLR 2023 - is scheduled to happen in Africa next week — in Kigali Rwanda
Last year Google added several African languages to Google Translate and Meta did something similar with their “No Language Left Behind” open source mode
What a time to be alive! [1/n]
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Great demo and review from
@shaunnarmah
of our recent TTS release (
@GhanaNLP
@algorineinc
) Have you tried it yet?
Follow Shaunn’s channel to stay informed on major tech trends 🙏🏾 🙏🏾
We appreciate all the support we are getting recently from the community 🥰 Keep em coming!
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Plotting a future for African ML which places Africans front and center, prioritizes our needs & buffers local ecosystems from data & algorithmic colonialism (both external & internal). ✌🏾
@GhanaNLP
@algorineinc
@lesan_ai
@LelapaAI
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*Twi Text to Speech Translation Demo*
@coqui_ai
&
@MasakhaneNLP
released some African TTS, & couldn’t sleep 😅 until coding up instance of
@GhanaNLP
Khaya AI to interact w/ it & see whats up. Accent weird some places, but 80%+ there. Will accelerate our efforts on this greatly 👍🏾
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Amazing work, thanks for having me. Ghanaians will be particularly interested in this article.
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Here is an adversarial example from
@KomlaElijah
😂 😂 😂 Can’t be mad honestly, but here is another reminder that “AI” isn’t perfect and you can’t blindly trust its output. Still, it can be useful if you are aware of all that 😉
Experimenting with adding image capabilities to
@GhanaNLP
@algorineinc
Khaya app to make it fully multimodal. Imagine learning African languages simply by taking pictures of your environment. Here are some Twi and Gurene examples (many thanks
@danyorigya
for the Gurene example🙏🏾
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Some more Twi examples from
@Elieli94
(Confirmed to be public images before posting !!) DM for PRIVATE DEMO link (only available over the next 48hrs if you see this later - but publicly available early next year - hopefully 😅)
Experimenting with adding image capabilities to
@GhanaNLP
@algorineinc
Khaya app to make it fully multimodal. Imagine learning African languages simply by taking pictures of your environment. Here are some Twi and Gurene examples (many thanks
@danyorigya
for the Gurene example🙏🏾
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We need a six month pause on gzip downloads 🤔 otherwise who knows, Skynet, Terminators and stuff 🤯
don’t forget to include Winzip, Winrar, Gunzip too
Gzip is an existential risk to humanity greater than climate change.
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This will 🔥🔥🔥 If you are in the Kumasi area, I hope you are able to check it out 😊 Other speakers include absolute legends 👀
@wode_maya
and
@johndumelo
👀
and Mr. Paul Azunre
@pazunre
Who is a Mathematician, an Engineer and a Software Deceloper and Machine Learning Scientistian as part of our speakers for this year’s edition of
#GOLDMINDS22
. [2/3]
I am not sure you would want to miss this for anything 🙅♂️🙅♀️🕺💃
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Download the world's only 🇬🇭🇧🇫Gurene/Frafra, Dagbani, & 🇰🇪 Luo translator here:
API available for integration with your own apps
For 🇰🇪 Kikuyu, Kimeru - Khaya beats Meta's NLLB - the only alternative - for e.g. 19 vs 2 BLEU in some directions.
onwards
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AI is coming for our recorded music “revenue”. I give it some 6 months tops until our own “Dall-E moment” 😅 polish up your live performance skills, that will be our last stand ☠️ 😂
We don’t do it for numbers but, it’s cool people listen. Tnx❤️ Focused on live perf now though, cuz AI coming for recorded music revenue (whatever left of it 😂 someone in the back said “which revenue?” 😂 😂 💔 make I see millions of streams next year or u all go chop slap 😂 👋🏾
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When rap unapologetically addresses social issues. Love to see it ❤️
You’d wonder how a promising change-driven youth leader matures into an unapologetically nonchalant politician – a reminder that power is a drug.
“Honorable” finally confesses
Power - Kookusi X
@rbd_gh
Produced by:
@Christoven_
Dir by
@kwakyedesmond
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When media works, it is a beautiful thing
When media actually works and covers noteworthy events just cuz they are noteworthy, not because they were being paid - It is a beautiful thing 🥹 Thank you
@AustinChronicle
Derek Udensi. Correct Journalists. Link in first comment
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Hey
@wanlov
@ReggieRockstone
@mensamusic
@sarkodie
Your fans who don’t understand Twi can now use the
@GhanaNLP
Khaya AI app to translate them to English! 😊 I attach examples. Hey
#GhanaMusic
fans, can you recognize these songs? 🧐 Try it urself 4FREE 👉🏾
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Correction Prof - 10 😃
As we celebrate International Mother Tongue Day, we are proud to inform you, our Khaya translator has nine (9) African languages. We want to create a society that appreciates our culture and can efficiently communicate in our mother tongues.
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Black Queens 🤩 👏🏾
Full Time’⏱️ |
#GhaNam
We head into the second leg encounter with a 3:1 advantage..
Still focused on the WAFCON slot 🎫
🇬🇭 3~1 🇳🇦
#MissionVolta
🔛
#ShineBlackQueens
✨🇬🇭
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@wode_maya
Please feature
@GhanaNLP
which is a volunteer group building Language Translation and other Lamguage AI tools for Ghanaians
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Today
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ASR in action 🚀 the only app in the world that can do this. Built by Ghanaians for Ghanaians. Keep sharing 🚀
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@PaaKwesiPapapaa
@GhanaNLP
@jeffwellz
lolol it is def not perfect, please submit the correct translation to help it improve 😄
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I am glad you are finding it useful 😊 very promising asked on your feedback 👊🏾
I have tried Bard Chatgpt Bing on their ability to make recognition of images, and it's nothing compared to the
@pazunre
project, it ability to optimize short concise notes capturing the fine details on d features displayed is insane
PABLO was test sample for Gurune Twi and Ga
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1000% this. Same pattern I saw at MIT. These people are skilled predators & pick their prey with extreme caution/precision - most vulnerable, those with the least leverage & least likely to fight back & be believed. Cue the 🤡s saying “but I know him as such a great guy!” 🤦🏽♂️
(Me being fired didn't just happen out of the blue cause of ONE paper).
Ppl still have no idea what it means to speak up & the worst are exactly those ppl who jumped to his defense saying how great so & so is. Newsflash, so & so is great to YOU, he's obviously not harassing YOU.
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@EfoEtornam
You probably shouldn’t conclude something about an entire race of people from a single video or incident.
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If you purchased a copy of my newly published book - Transfer Learning for Natural Language Processing - and would like a personalized autograph for your book, send me DM or comment below!🙏🏾 (the sticker will be mailed to you and you can put it inside your book)
@ManningBooks
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