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= CDIAL AI = Centre for Digitization of Indigenous African Languages, CDIAL is a technology company focused on artificial intelligence (AI) for the enterprise, specializing in language models in low-resourced languages, research, and deployment. The organization was founded in 2021, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, US with offices in Lagos, Nigeria.

CDIAL launched its AI solution, Indigenius, a conversational AI platform that enables communication and interaction in African languages. It is a localized AI solution that speaks underserved languages, utilizing machine-learning models to recognize speech, translate text, generate responses, and engage in conversations.

In May 2023, CDIAL released its multilingual smart Keyboard which enables communication in 180 African languages and allows users to communicate in their native languages. The keyboard includes smart emojis, speech-to-text, and auto-translate features, and is available on Jumia, Amazon, and via Paystack.

In 2023, CDIAL unveiled its dictionary that translates modern words into native languages covering new existing words not contained in native dictionaries.

History
The organization was officially established in 2021 by three Nigerians, Yinka Iyinolakan, Soji Akinlabi, and Shona Olalere setting out on a mission that includes building technology that businesses can use to deploy customer support agents, chatbots, search engines, copywriting, translation, summarization, and other AI-driven products. CDIAL solutions include an app on the Play Store, enterprise solutions for translation and speech recognition, and hardware systems supporting African languages

Milestones
In 2023, CDIAL won a $50,000 Black Ambition Prize competition founded by Pharrell Williams, in a ceremony held in Tribeca, New York while Co-Founder Yinka Iyinolakan was selected as a 2023 fellow of the Echoing Green Fellowship, a global fellowship program for emerging entrepreneurs. In 2024, CDIAL won the Innovative and Technology Award presented by Nigeria's Vice President,Kashim Shettima on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria as part of its 2024 MSME Day support and encouragement program and was selected as part of the first cohort of ten innovative startups by Accelerate Africa,  an accelerator program striving to become the Y Combinator of Africa, founded by Iyinoluwa Aboyeji.