Community-tested models

AI models for African languages

Does it actually work for Wolof, Bambara, Lingala or Darija? Benchmarks rarely say. The community tests these models on real speech and text — and reports back.

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dyulafr

Dyula to French translation (JoeyNMT).

ASR
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moore

Mooré ASR (~23k pairs).

nllb-600M-moore-lora-v0

Rekin226 / Mooré-Voice

Translation
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moorefren

Mooré-French/English translation (~205k pairs).

fonxlsr (OkwuGbé)

Emezue & Dossou

ASR
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fon

Fon ASR (~15% WER).

ASR
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tunisian-arabic

Tunisian Arabic ASR (~21h LoRA).

TunBERT

InstaDeep + iCompass

Other
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tunisian-arabic

First Tunisian Arabic BERT.

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darija

Darija ASR (57h, WER 8.5%).

Translation
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endarija

English to Darija translation (NLLB-1.3B tune).

Al-Atlas-0.5B

AtlasIA (Morocco, community)

LLM
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darija

First Darija foundation model.

Atlas-Chat-9B

MBZUAI-Paris

LLM
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darija

Moroccan Darija chat model (Gemma-2-9B tune).

DarijaBERT

SI2M Lab INSEA + AIOX Labs

Other
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darija

BERT model for Moroccan Darija (~100M tokens).

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Lingala-QLoRA

Congo Digital Services (DRC)

LLM
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lingala

MALIBA-AI bambara-tts

MALIBA-AI (Mali)

TTS
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bambara

Bambara TTS with 10 voices.

soloni-114m-tdt-ctc-v3

RobotsMali AI4D Lab (Mali)

ASR
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bambara

Bambara ASR (~40h).

TTS
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wolof

Wolof TTS (~40k samples).

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wolof

Wolof ASR trained on ALFFA (WER 21.3%).

Translation
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woloffr

Wolof-French translator (BLEU 13).

Oolel-v0.1

Soynade Research

LLM
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wolofenfr

First open Wolof LLM (8B).

InkubaLM-0.4B

Lelapa AI

LLM
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swahilizuluyorubaxhosahausaenfr

AfroLM

B. Dossou et al.

Other
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bambarafonlingalamooreswahiliwolof

Masked language model covering 23 languages.

AfriBERTa-large

Castorini (Ogueji et al.)

Other
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swahili

Masked language model; Swahili plus 10 other languages.

AfroXLMR-large-76L

Davlan (D. Adelani et al.)

Other
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wolofbambaralingalaswahilifrarabic

Masked language model covering Wolof, Bambara, Lingala, Swahili, French and Arabic variants.

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wolofbambarafonmooreswahili

Named-entity recognition covering 21 African languages.

Translation
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lingalabambaraswahiliwoloffon

Lingala, Bambara and Swahili via API; Wolof and Fon in the consumer app since June 2024.

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swahililingalaarabic

Supports Swahili, Lingala and Arabic (no Wolof/Bambara).

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wolofbambaralingalaswahilifonmooredyula

NLLB-200

Meta AI

Translation
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