
Inside Out: A TM Forum podcast
Hosted by Mark Newman and Joanne Taaffe and Willie Stegmann · TM Forum
4.3from 4 ratings
- 65
- Episodes
- 16
- Transcribed
- 4
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Inside Out: A TM Forum podcast
Tackling the latest telecom questions with today's network and communications business leaders
- Publisher
- TM Forum
- Category
- news · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 May 2020
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
16 of 65 episodes have a transcript.

8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Building conversational AI for African languages

17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
MTN Group CTIO on improving skills and margins

19 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Vodafone's El-Sayed on insourcing software development
Inside a recent episode

Building conversational AI for African languages
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] If we look at the data available on the web, about 44% of the data is in English. So we have a lot of English data available on the web. If we look at the first represented language in the web, It is Swahili, which is spoken by more than 140 million people around the world. This is the first language represented on the web. It's less than 0.01% of the data on the web. So this reality of under-representation of the African languages in the web It leads directly to models that are not able to understand, to speak and to answer on those languages, which means that the available models have different capabilities and sometimes wonderful capabilities to unlock a lot of opportunities, but they still struggle to understand some and a lot of local languages in Africa. […]
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- Khaoula Elagouni
- Charles Molapisi
- Ahmed El-Sayed
- Peter Leukert
- Mark Sanders
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 3.5 / 5
- 2 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 2 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 39 / 100
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- Quality
- 48
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 75
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Questions about Inside Out: A TM Forum podcast
Who hosts Inside Out: A TM Forum podcast?
Mark Newman and Joanne Taaffe and Willie Stegmann host the show. Published by TM Forum.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Inside Out: A TM Forum podcast take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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