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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AfroLM
B. Dossou et al.
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bambarafonlingalamooreswahiliwolof
Masked language model covering 23 languages.
AfriBERTa-large
Castorini (Ogueji et al.)
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swahili
Masked language model; Swahili plus 10 other languages.
AfroXLMR-large-76L
Davlan (D. Adelani et al.)
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wolofbambaralingalaswahilifrarabic
Masked language model covering Wolof, Bambara, Lingala, Swahili, French and Arabic variants.
MasakhaNER (afroxlmr-large-ner)
Masakhane
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wolofbambarafonmooreswahili
Named-entity recognition covering 21 African languages.
Google Cloud Translation
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lingalabambaraswahiliwoloffon
Lingala, Bambara and Swahili via API; Wolof and Fon in the consumer app since June 2024.
Whisper large-v3
OpenAI
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swahililingalaarabic
Supports Swahili, Lingala and Arabic (no Wolof/Bambara).
NLLB-200
Meta AI
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