The Federal Government has introduced N-ATLAS, an open-source, multilingual, and multimodal large language model designed to support Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, and Nigerian-accented English.
Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, announced the launch in New York during the 80th UN General Assembly, noting that the initiative places African voices at the heart of global AI development.
Developed by the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in partnership with Awarri Technologies, N-ATLAS comes with speech-technology tools such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) for transcription, accessibility, and local-language applications.
The model enables chatbots for government services, transcription of radio/TV broadcasts, captioning in local languages, call-centre automation, and summarisation of interviews in indigenous tongues.
Described as the first step towards Africa’s leadership in AI, the model’s documentation is publicly available on Hugging Face.
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