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EqualyzAI vs MALIBA-AI Bambara TTS
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Country
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🏳️ ML
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Approval required
Approval required
Pricing
Not listed
Free for non-commercial and research use
Verified
Verified
Unverified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
5 Jul 2026
Tags
speech, african-languages, voice-ai, conversational-ai, datasets
tts, bambara, mali, spark-tts, speech-synthesis
Summary
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.
MALIBA-AI Bambara TTS is a neural text-to-speech model for Bambara (Bamanankan), the most widely spoken language in Mali, built on the Spark-TTS framework with a Qwen2.5-based backbone of around 500M parameters. It supports 10 authentic Bambara speaker voices and outputs 16kHz mono audio without a separate vocoder. It is released under a non-commercial MALIBA-AI research license.