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AfriSpeech

NLP for Africa
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AfriSpeech

Building open-source NLP tools for African languages.

We believe every African language deserves representation in AI. Our projects make it easy to work with African languages in data processing, machine translation, speech, and language technology.

Featured Projects

  • afriso - Map African language names to ISO 639-3 codes, countries, families, and alternative names. 2,264 languages covered.
  • awesome-africa-nlp - Curated list of open-source NLP projects for African languages.
  • african-nlp-communities - Directory of NLP communities and organizations working on African languages.

Get Involved

We welcome contributions from developers, linguists, and researchers working on African language technology.

  • Browse our awesome-africa-nlp list and contribute missing projects
  • Help improve afriso language data — especially alternative names and corrections from native speakers
  • Open an issue or PR on any of our repositories
  • Email us at afrispeech@gmail.com

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  1. africa-corpus-builder africa-corpus-builder Public

    Get access to monolingual and parallel data for 693 African languages

    Python 14 6

  2. africa-g2p africa-g2p Public

    Rule-based grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) for 400+ African languages — convert text to native-orthography phonemes (great for TTS/ASR training) or IPA, with romanisation for non-Latin scripts. Data from…

    Python 14 4

  3. afrispeech-selector afrispeech-selector Public

    Easy access to speech data across 142 African languages for training TTS and ASR models.

    Python 13 5

  4. awesome-africa-nlp awesome-africa-nlp Public

    A curated list of awesome open-source projects made by African developers.

    Python 8 1

  5. afriso afriso Public

    Curated list of languages spoken in Africa

    Python 3 1

  6. african-nlp-communities african-nlp-communities Public

    Index of NLP communities and organizations for African languages

    Python 1

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