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Kathleen Siminyu

Kiswahili Machine Learning Fellow, Mozilla

Kathleen Siminyu is an AI Researcher focused on Natural Language Processing(NLP) for African Languages. She works at Mozilla Foundation as a Machine Learning Fellow to support the development of a Kiswahili Speech Recognition dataset and to build transcription models for end-use cases in the agricultural and financial domains. In this role, Kathleen is keen to ensure the diversity of Kiswahili speakers, in terms of age, gender, accent, and language variant/dialect, for the dataset and models created.

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