Speech AI for the languages of the Sahel
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A voice agent that holds a conversation in Hausa
Hira
Research into speech models that listen while they speak
Rumbu
A consented Hausa speech commons, Niger first
Maʼauni
Honest measurement for Hausa and Zarma speech
Zarma
Speech technology for Zarma, from the ground up
Tankaɗe
From raw audio to data a model and a reader can trust
ModelsSpeech systems built on our research
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A voice agent that holds a conversation in Hausa
Status- In research
- Voice agent · Hausa
Kora
Speech translation between Hausa and French
Status- In development
- Speech translation · Hausa, French
Tafiya
Natural, expressive Hausa speech synthesis
Status- In development
- Speech synthesis · Hausa
ResearchFive programmes, one aim: speech technology that works for the people of the Sahel
Explore researchDataHausa as people speak it, recorded with their consent
How we work with dataConversation, not dictation
Two people talking on separate channels, calls over ordinary phones, and speakers who do not read, prompted by pictures and questions instead of text.
Consent that travels with the data
Every speaker consents in Hausa, chooses what their voice may be used for, and is paid for their time. Those choices stay attached to every file and model.
A data statement with every release
Who is in the data, how it was recorded and what it cannot support, published with it. What we keep closed, we say why.
Test sets frozen first
Speaker-disjoint evaluation sets, balanced by dialect and gender, frozen before any training data is collected.
Help build speech AI for the languages you speak
We work with native speakers, linguists, researchers and engineers in Niger, Nigeria and beyond. Hausa, Zarma or Fulfulde fluency counts.
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