AI Resources
BibleTTS vs Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🇷🇼 Rwanda
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Not listed
Open weights
Verified
Verified
Unverified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
5 Jul 2026
Tags
dataset, speech, tts, african-languages, masakhane
asr, speech-to-text, rwanda, whisper, kinyarwanda
Summary
BibleTTS is a large, high-fidelity open text-to-speech corpus with up to 80+ hours of studio-quality 48kHz single-speaker recordings per language across ten Sub-Saharan African languages (Akuapem Twi, Asante Twi, Chichewa, Ewe, Hausa, Kikuyu, Lingala, Luganda, Luo, Yoruba), built by Masakhane/Coqui.
Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda is an automatic speech recognition model fine-tuned from OpenAI's Whisper-small on the Common Voice Kinyarwanda dataset, achieving about 24 percent word error rate. It transcribes Kinyarwanda audio into text for speech applications. It was built by Mbaza NLP, part of the Digital Umuganda voice-technology ecosystem in Rwanda.