- 76
- Episodes
- 24
- Transcribed
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
- 5K
- YouTube views
About iAfrikan BYTES
iAfrikan BYTES features commentary on Afrikan technology news, insights, opinion and analysis with tech industry leaders and professionals. The podcasts are from interviews conducted by iAfrikan.con staff whether at events or when needed for commentary.
- Publisher
- iAfrikan Media
- Category
- news · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 Sept 2014
- Latest episode
- 2 Jul 2025
Latest episodes
24 of 76 episodes have a transcript.
2 Jul 2025TRANSCRIPT
Giving Voice To The Machine: Prof Mpho Primus On African Languages, AI, And Ethics
25 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT
Inside CSIR’s Cybersecurity Mission With Dr. Jabu Motsweni
19 May 2025TRANSCRIPT
Hubs Of Impact: Prof Lynn Morris On How Wits University Is Fusing Research, AI And Innovation
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Giving Voice To The Machine: Prof Mpho Primus On African Languages, AI, And Ethics
Published 2 Jul 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And then, you know, at honors, then I did kind of a combination of both computer science and linguistics. At master's level, then I then entered the fold in terms of contributing to the body of knowledge by developing a tone labeling algorithm for social. Now, the specific purpose of this was that we had seen that particularly tech -to -speak systems developed for local languages did not sound natural. I mean, you know, they are quite intelligible in terms that we can understand, but they're not natural. You can actually tell that you speak into a human being, which, you know, if you think about the churrent test, you know, the test of intelligence and systems is about interacting with the system that can deceive you to think that you speak into another human being. […]
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- Mpho Primus
- Dr Jabu Motsweni
- Lynn Morris
- Prof Benjamin Rosman
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- 5,190
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- Quality
- 67
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 74
- Engagement
- 30
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