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Bambara-ASR-v2 vs EqualyzAI
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Country
🏳️ ML
🇳🇬 Nigeria
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Approval required
Pricing
Open weights (Apache 2.0)
Not listed
Verified
Unverified
Verified
Last verified
10 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026
Tags
asr, whisper, bambara, mali, code-switching
speech, african-languages, voice-ai, conversational-ai, datasets
Summary
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.
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.