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African-Whisper vs Sunbird AI SALT
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Country
🇰🇪 Kenya
🇺🇬 Uganda
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free
Free
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
24 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
asr, open-source, african-languages, whisper, fine-tuning
tts, asr, translation, ugandan-languages, luganda
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.
SALT (Sunbird African Language Technology) is a multi-way parallel text-and-speech corpus of English plus Luganda, Acholi, Lugbara, Ateso, Runyankole and Swahili supporting ASR, TTS and translation, with companion Whisper and MMS models. Built with Makerere University AI Lab.