lesan

Democratizing access to the Web for millions of people by making content available in their language.

[lesan @lesan_ai]

✨We Have Launched A New Language: Tigrinya✨

You can translate any text to and from #Tigrinya, #Amharic or #English.

Try it out now at https://t.co/d8rDmF3mu4

[Asmelash Teka Hadgu @asmelashteka]

Check out my "3 Minutes With" conversation:
https://t.co/fZqoWIZZy7

Thank you Andrew (@decka227) for presenting our conversation so beautifully and Rest of World (@restofworld) for highlighting our story.

@lesan_ai @GhanaNLP @DAIRInstitute

[Milagros Miceli @MilagrosMiceli]

The AI startup outperforming Google Translate in Ethiopian languages? Meet ⁦@lesan_ai⁩ and the amazing ⁦@asmelashteka⁩ 🙌 https://t.co/Ck35GRf2sa

[Asmelash Teka Hadgu @asmelashteka]

Here is an episode with @skyis_blck – an amazing #podcast of future-facing conversations with experts, entrepreneurs, and innovators of #African descent.

I spoke about #Tigray #Lesan and the partnership between @lesan_ai and @DAIRInstitute

https://t.co/MwiyrKPUq5

[Asmelash Teka Hadgu @asmelashteka]

People ask me why build @lesan_ai if #Google or #Microsoft is gonna do it anyway? One of the important reasons is this. I don't want my community to be at the mercy of individuals like this to access the Web in their language.

Dude, nice job on #Ukraine & #Iran why not #Tigray?

[Asmelash Teka Hadgu @asmelashteka]

I'd have loved to spend the week talking about how to build technology to empower your community. Because that's what I do at @Lesan_ai and @DAIRInstitute. Instead, it was about #Tigray that has been cut off from the world for almost two years.

#EndTigraySiege

9/n

[lesan @lesan_ai]

We love it when creators find our product useful and passionately share it to the world in their own amazing ways.

https://t.co/YBrRoYuj8q

[Shega Media @shegamedia]

An Ethiopian machine translation startup Lesan has partnered with Timinit’s Gebru’s AI research institute to study and develop open-source natural language processing tools for Ge’ez-based languages in social media settings.

https://t.co/zy28L4MS3g

[Asmelash Teka Hadgu @asmelashteka]

✨Exciting news ✨🎉 🚀

I'm thrilled to let you know that Lesan is partnering with DAIR to study and develop open source Natural Language Processing tools for Ge’ez based languages in social media settings.

@DAIRInstitute @lesan_ai

#NLProc #SocialMedia #Tigrinya #Amharic

[Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon @DAIRInstitute]

Please join us in welcoming Asmelash Teka as a part-time DAIR fellow.

Asmelash is the Co-founder and CTO of Lesan (@lesan_ai). At Lesan, he has built state-of-the-art machine translation systems to and from Amharic, Tigrinya and English. 🎉🎉🎉

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

Let's go!

[Tesfaye Awala @TesfayeAwala21]

Congratulations Asmelash @asmelashteka #Lesan & @DAIRInstitute!
I hope #Irob Saho is in the pipeline as well, as we discussed, regardless of the challenges with the resources at the moment.
@timnitGebru

[lesan @lesan_ai]

@Rimey_tig @SteezyFlexTM This one is funny :D

[Muloo_B @MulooB]

Which translated version of the foreign language (Tigrigya) provides you with more information?
A) @GoogleTranslatr
B) @lesan_ai

[Gebrekirstos Gebreselassie @GebrekirstosG]

Google says it has added Tigrinya to its translation. The majority of the Tigrinya speakers remain in blackout in #Tigray & the rest in Eritrea have no internet. Only for Diaspora, for now. Compare Google Tigrinya to https://t.co/dwbt6Pv5KB Tigrinya.
https://t.co/wkshKBXxY5

[Mehari KT @SteezyFlexTM]

So far @lesan_ai kicks ass!!👏🏾💪🏾

[lesan @lesan_ai]

@lesanbot This message is coming straight from Lesan

by Arefat Hyeredin.

[Black in AI @black_in_ai]

Great interview by @asmelashteka touching on many timely topics (NLP for Ethiopian Languages, impact of war on Tigray on his work).

@lesan_ai was selected to be part of our inaugural startup showcase last December

[lesan @lesan_ai]

Check out Lesan, state-of-the-art machine translation system #Amharic #Tigrinya
https://t.co/PhF5ZqipgI

[lesan @lesan_ai]

@zeaxumawit @HannahZenawi Thanks for trying out our translator!

[lesan @lesan_ai]

We are looking for a translator for Amharic to Tigrinya who is a native Tigrinya speaker with past translation experience.

If you or someone you know know has these skills please DM us or email at [email protected].