| African Languages Technology Initiative (ALT - I) was set up to facilitate development of the neccessary resources that will enable the engagement of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in African Languages. The overall aim is to appropriate various aspects of Human Language Technology (HTL) such as speech synthesis, speech recognition, natural language understanding, machine translation and many others for human-human and human-machine communication in African Languages for the unfolding information society.
Alt-I is basically a research and development agency with a mission of taking African cultures into the knowledge era through advocacy and services delivery. It has, within its short lifespan, been engaged in research efforts into Yoruba language as a means of developing a set of best practices. The results of these seminal efforts have served to reveal the enormity of the task of integrating Africa into the ‘global village’ of the knowledge era and further demonstrated the need for these lines of research and developments. |
