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A free virtual roundtable from TokataHQ and Umu Igbo Unite. 12:00 PM EST · 9:00 AM PST · 5:00 PM GMT · 6:00 PM WAT. Two hours.
Featuring Pete Edochie’s opening address, Ugoccie live in conversation, and voices from culture, research, and technology. See all 13 participants and their bios on the event page.
We tested the automatic caption feature in all three apps in September 2026. None offered captions for spoken Igbo.
For creators who make short videos in these apps, captions that appear automatically in other languages have to be typed by hand in Igbo. The results are in the tracker with their date. We will retest as the apps change.
Got a different result? Send us a screenshot or recording and we will review it.
Udochi is a software developer and co-founder of Mmụta Dị Ụtọ, which creates Igbo-language education and entertainment for children and families. Udochi brings hands-on experience building Igbo-language digital products and will help grow community engagement, outreach and participation in #PutIgboInTech.
Founder Sorochi Van Sickle showed where Igbo is missing in voice technology, captions and AI tools. She also set out what it would take to get Igbo from research data into everyday products.
Chris co-founded Lanfrica, which helps make African language resources easier to discover and use, and founded NaijaVoices, a large-scale speech data initiative covering Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba. He advises TokataHQ on speech data, language technology and research, linking the campaign to the technical work behind better Igbo speech recognition.
The NaijaVoices dataset listing explains its registration and data-use conditions.
Sorochi Van Sickle spoke about why keeping Igbo strong now means making room for it in everyday technology, the same technology Igbo children are growing up with.
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