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).

nllb-600M-moore-lora-v0

Rekin226 / Mooré-Voice

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moorefren

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

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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

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.

NLLB-200

Meta AI

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wolofbambaralingaladarijatunisian-arabicswahilifonmooredyulafr