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Bambara-ASR-v2 vs EqualyzAI
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Country
🏳️ ML
🇳🇬 Nigeria
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Approval required
Pricing
Open weights (Apache 2.0)
Not listed
Verified
Unverified
Verified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
5 Jul 2026
Tags
asr, whisper, bambara, mali, code-switching
speech, african-languages, voice-ai, conversational-ai, datasets
Summary
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.
EqualyzAI is a voice-first agentic AI company building speech recognition, text-to-speech and voice agents for African languages and dialects (Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Pidgin with code-switching), with products including VoiceMaker, VoiceAgent and VoiceBridge plus datasets/APIs. Operates from Lagos, Nigeria and Washington DC.