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African-Whisper vs Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda

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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Country
🇰🇪 Kenya
🇷🇼 Rwanda
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free
Open weights
Verified
Verified
Unverified
Last verified
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026
Tags
asr, open-source, african-languages, whisper, fine-tuning
asr, speech-to-text, rwanda, whisper, kinyarwanda
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.
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.

African-Whisper vs Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda at a glance

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

African-Whisper is based in Kenya and Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda in Rwanda.

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 Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda (36 checks).

Average response time on live probes was 1029 ms for African-Whisper and 204 ms for Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda.

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; Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda, Open weights.
  • Country: African-Whisper, Kenya; Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda, Rwanda.
  • Verification: African-Whisper, Verified; Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda, Unverified.
  • Average latency: African-Whisper, 1029 ms; Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda, 204 ms.

Topics

Both are tagged: asr, whisper.

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

Only Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda: speech-to-text, rwanda, kinyarwanda.

Common questions

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

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