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GhanaNLP Khaya vs Toucan
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
Translation
Translation
Country
🇬🇭 Ghana
🌍 Pan-African
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Approval required
Institutional only
Pricing
API key signup with free tier; pricing not publicly listed
Free / open weights
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
24 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
api, tts, asr, translation, ghanaian-languages
nlp, african-languages, machine-translation, ubc-nlp, many-to-many
Summary
GhanaNLP is an open-source Ghana-based NLP initiative whose Khaya product offers machine translation, text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition for 10+ Ghanaian languages (Twi, Ewe, Ga, Dagbani, Frafra and others) via web/Android/iOS apps and a REST API with Python and JavaScript SDKs.
An Afrocentric many-to-many machine translation model (1.2B params, mT5) fine-tuned from Cheetah to support 156 African language pairs, evaluated on the AfroLingu-MT benchmark. Developed by the UBC Deep Learning and NLP Lab and published at ACL 2024.