How two Nigerian AI engineers built the world’s first pidgin-to-English translation model

Twenty-one-year old Orevaoghene Ahia speaks good English and writes tons of code in python. Her mum, an Isoko woman bred in Nigeria’s Niger Delta area, is fluent in three languages but favours pidgin English for conversations with family, friends and customers. Though Ahia’s pidgin isn’t as intense as her mum’s waffi dialect, she regards it … Continue reading How two Nigerian AI engineers built the world’s first pidgin-to-English translation model