August 2, 2026 – August 7, 2026

Microsoft Research at Deep Learning Indaba 2026

West Africa Time (UTC +1)

Location: Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria

Microsoft Research blog

Three white line icons on a blue‑to‑purple gradient background: a vertical audio waveform on the left, a globe showing Africa and Europe in the center, and a network on the right.

Microsoft Research Blog

Paza: Introducing automatic speech recognition benchmarks and models for low resource languages

February 4, 2026 | Mercy Muchai, Kevin Chege, Nick Mumero, and Stephanie Nyairo

Microsoft Research unveils Paza, a human-centered speech pipeline, and PazaBench, the first leaderboard for low-resource languages. It covers 39 African languages and 52 models and is tested with communities in real settings.