MALIBA-AI Bambara TTS
MALIBA-AI Bambara TTS is a neural text-to-speech model for Bambara (Bamanankan), the most widely spoken language in Mali, built on the Spark-TTS framework with a Qwen2.5-based backbone of around 500M parameters. It supports 10 authentic Bambara speaker voices and outputs 16kHz mono audio without a separate vocoder. It is released under a non-commercial MALIBA-AI research license.
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- Pricing
- Free for non-commercial and research use
- Country
- 🇲🇱 Mali
- Last verified
- 25 Aug 2026
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