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Dholuo On Google Translate
« on: July 30, 2024, 04:36:28 PM »
Dholuo(Luo) is now the first Nilotic language added to the service.  Yay...
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Dholuo(Luo) sani e dhok mokwongo mar Nilotic ma omed e tijno. Ee...
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Re: Dholuo On Google Translate
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2024, 05:55:47 PM »
Nice.
They should add more Africa languages.
Let remember majority of africans are not educated

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Re: Dholuo On Google Translate
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2024, 02:32:23 AM »
I used to converse with Janet of UoN on her mother-tongue NLP projects. They were building a Kikuyu,  Luo,  etc corpora (dictionaries). It's such local research foundations Google or OpenAI use to implement translation.


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Re: Dholuo On Google Translate
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2024, 11:09:08 AM »
Dholuo(Luo) is now the first Nilotic language added to the service.  Yay...
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Dholuo(Luo) sani e dhok mokwongo mar Nilotic ma omed e tijno. Ee...

I don't see Dholuo or Luo on Google Translate...
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Re: Dholuo On Google Translate
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2024, 12:04:01 PM »
I attended NeurIPS in Louisiana and the world is basically LLM-obsessed at the moment.

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