AI for African languages conference 2025

The AI for African Languages Conference 2025 brings together researchers, engineers, and linguists dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence technologies for the diverse and underrepresented languages of the African continent. With over 2,000 languages spoken across Africa, the gap in NLP tools, speech recognition systems, and language models remains a critical challenge that this conference directly addresses.

Attendees will explore topics such as low-resource language modeling, speech synthesis, machine translation for African languages, dataset creation, and community-driven language technology. The conference is essential for NLP researchers, computational linguists, AI practitioners, and policymakers who recognize that inclusive AI must reflect linguistic diversity. Students and early-career researchers from African institutions are especially encouraged to participate and contribute to this growing field.