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Abake Adenle: Using technology to make African languages cool

Nov 14, 202131 minSeason 1Ep. 20
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Episode description

In this episode, 'the 20th Episode' we hosted Abake Adenle on the Show, She is the founder of AJALA Studios, a company that make tools that enable enterprises build voice automation experiences in African Language with initial focus on voice recognition (something like Siri or Alexa) and speech synthesis. Her company is currently working on Yoruba, Igbo Hausa and Swahili. Before starting her company she has worked with Morgan Stanley as equity derivative strategist and had a very interesting educational background moving straight from undergrad to PhD. In this episode we discussed her educational background Career with Morgan Stanley Starting out Ajala studios Why she did not want to pursue Venture Capital funding Artificial Intelligence and African Enterprises Hiring and more Check out Ajala website here: https://www.ajala.ai/
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