Research

Advancing African language AI

Our research team develops models, datasets, and benchmarks that power Conversa AI products and contribute to the global AI community.

Research Areas

What we're working on

Language Models

Nigerian and West African language models for translation, speech, and conversation.

Datasets

Curated speech, text, and parallel corpora for African languages.

Benchmarks

Evaluation frameworks for measuring AI performance across local languages.

Open Source

Tools, models, and datasets released for the research community.

Publications

Research papers, technical reports, and conference presentations.

Publications

Recent research

Nigerian Language AI Benchmark (NLAB) — 2026Read
Low-Resource Translation for West African Languages — 2025Read
Speech Recognition for Nigerian Accents — 2025Read

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