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Kallaama vs Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda

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KallaamaMbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda
Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Speech (ASR/TTS)
Country
🇸🇳 Senegal
🇷🇼 Rwanda
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free
Open weights
Verified
Verified
Unverified
Last verified
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026
Tags
speech, asr, senegal, wolof, pulaar
asr, speech-to-text, rwanda, whisper, kinyarwanda
Links
Website Docs GitHub
Website
Summary
A 125-hour transcribed speech dataset in Wolof, Pulaar and Sereer (the three most widely spoken languages of Senegal) focused on agriculture, built for ASR development. Led by Jokalante with Orange Innovation and Ecole Polytechnique de Thies, funded by Lacuna Fund.
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.

Kallaama vs Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda at a glance

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

Kallaama is based in Senegal 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 Kallaama (36 checks) and 100% for Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda (36 checks).

Average response time on live probes was 1020 ms for Kallaama 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: Kallaama, Free; Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda, Open weights.
  • Country: Kallaama, Senegal; Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda, Rwanda.
  • Verification: Kallaama, Verified; Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda, Unverified.
  • Average latency: Kallaama, 1020 ms; Mbaza Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda, 204 ms.

Topics

Both are tagged: asr.

Only Kallaama: speech, senegal, wolof, pulaar.

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

Common questions

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

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