Giving AI a Nigerian Accent: Inside First Local-Language Model
By Shuaib S. Agaka
For millions of Nigerians, digital assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google remain outsiders to daily life. They stumble over names, flatten accents, and mispronounce places with comic clumsiness—“Enugu” becomes “En-you-goo” and “Ibadan” mutates...