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African-Whisper vs Bambara-ASR-v2
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Country
🇰🇪 Kenya
🏳️ ML
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free
Open weights (Apache 2.0)
Verified
Verified
Unverified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
5 Jul 2026
Tags
asr, open-source, african-languages, whisper, fine-tuning
asr, whisper, bambara, mali, code-switching
Summary
An open-source framework (PyPI: africanwhisper) for fine-tuning OpenAI's Whisper on multilingual African-language audio datasets such as Common Voice and FLEURS, with optimized inference, diarization and deployment. Created by Kevin Kibe.
Bambara-ASR-v2 is an automatic speech recognition model for Bambara (Bamanankan) fine-tuned from OpenAI's Whisper-large-v2 using parameter-efficient tuning, reaching about 25 percent word error rate. It handles natural Bambara-French code-switching common in Mali's multilingual context. It is released under Apache 2.0 as part of the MALIBA-AI community initiative.