Meet Emmanuel Gabriel – Nigerian entrepreneur that developed AI platform for African language translation

Press Release | Emmanuel Gabriel, a 41-year-old Nigerian tech expert, has developed a global Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform, known as ‘OBTranslate‘, for over 2,000 African language translations.

Gabriel, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in email on Wednesday in Abuja that the invention, was intended to create massive jobs for Africans.

According to him, OBTranslate is an online Common Admission Tool (CAT) for machine learning, AI platforms and neural network systems for over 2,000 African languages.

He explained that the drive to expand the Nigerian and African tech market, create jobs and help improve lives of people motivated him to come up with the innovation.

“After the launch of OBTranslate, I hope it will break communication barriers in Africa and create job opportunities for people. Farmers will be able to trade their goods and services without language communication barriers.”

“OBTranslate machine language, AI algorithms have curated over 9 billion accurate tasks, to be translated in over 2,000 African languages which are available in our neural network connections. Our goal is to break language communication barriers in rural and urban areas in Africa and it will enable self-driving cars, smartphones, linear robots and wireless technology to communicate and interact with Africans in their dialects,” he said.

Gabriel added that the OBTranslate technology was built on machine learning, AI and big data analysis which identified language patterns and tasks. He pointed out that the tasks of deep machine learning include voice recognition and accent, messaging protocol, African-based programming languages, natural language processing, education materials and television subtitles and music lyrics, among others.

He noted that there were over 2,000 languages in 54 countries of Africa, and 63 percent of the total sub-Saharan population – about 854 million people – live in rural areas and speaking diverse dialects. And in addition, the that these Africans living in rural areas had little or no access to global markets.

“Our machine language, AI algorithms with neural network connections have curated billions of task waiting for Africans who can teach our machine their local dialect. The first phase of the project comes with 9 billion tasks, and the 2nd phase comes with 12 billion tasks. It is projected to hire about 100 million Africans, with a projection of US$3.6 billion passive income for Africans with the capacity”, he added.

Gabriel is also the founder of OpenBinacle – an industry professional social networking platform.