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EqualyzAI vs Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Country
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇷🇼 Rwanda
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Approval required
Pricing
Not listed
Open weights
Verified
Verified
Unverified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
5 Jul 2026
Tags
speech, african-languages, voice-ai, conversational-ai, datasets
asr, speech-to-text, rwanda, whisper, kinyarwanda
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.
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.