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African-Whisper vs Bambara-ASR-v2

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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Country
🇰🇪 Kenya
🇲🇱 Mali
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free
Open weights (Apache 2.0)
Verified
Verified
Unverified
Last verified
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026
Tags
asr, open-source, african-languages, whisper, fine-tuning
asr, whisper, bambara, mali, code-switching
Summary
An open-source framework (PyPI: africanwhisper) for fine-tuning OpenAI's Whisper on multilingual African-language audio datasets such as Common Voice and FLEURS, with optimized inference, diarization and deployment. Created by Kevin Kibe.
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.

African-Whisper vs Bambara-ASR-v2 at a glance

African-Whisper and Bambara-ASR-v2 are both listed under Speech (ASR/TTS) in Wycord's AI Resources index.

African-Whisper is based in Kenya and Bambara-ASR-v2 in Mali.

Both currently show the status "Docs live".

On access, both are marked "No approval needed".

Over the last 30 days Wycord's probes measured 100% uptime for African-Whisper (36 checks) and 100% for Bambara-ASR-v2 (36 checks).

Average response time on live probes was 1029 ms for African-Whisper and 166 ms for Bambara-ASR-v2.

Uptime and latency come from Wycord's own probes of each resource's website, documentation and repository, run every six hours.

How they differ

  • Pricing: African-Whisper, Free; Bambara-ASR-v2, Open weights (Apache 2.0).
  • Country: African-Whisper, Kenya; Bambara-ASR-v2, Mali.
  • Verification: African-Whisper, Verified; Bambara-ASR-v2, Unverified.
  • Average latency: African-Whisper, 1029 ms; Bambara-ASR-v2, 166 ms.

Topics

Both are tagged: asr, whisper.

Only African-Whisper: open-source, african-languages, fine-tuning.

Only Bambara-ASR-v2: bambara, mali, code-switching.

Common questions

Which has better uptime, African-Whisper or Bambara-ASR-v2?
They are level at 100% over the last 30 days.
Do African-Whisper or Bambara-ASR-v2 need approval before use?
Both are marked "No approval needed".
Is the documentation for African-Whisper and Bambara-ASR-v2 working?
Both show "Docs live" at the last check.
Where are African-Whisper and Bambara-ASR-v2 based?
African-Whisper is based in Kenya; Bambara-ASR-v2 is based in Mali.

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