After creating 2 million GPT tokens, this UNILAG student has built an AI text-to-speech model with Nigerian accent

In November 2024, when I asked Saheed Azeez how difficult it was to create Naijaweb — a dataset of 230 million GPT-2 tokens based on Nairaland — he brushed it off as something simple. “It’s just web scraping,” he said. However, in my latest conversation with him, his new passion project seems to have pushed him […]