Simba African Speech AI Suite
[ingest-scout] Open-source African speech AI ecosystem from UBC's Deep Learning & NLP Lab: 5 ASR models covering 43 languages, 7 TTS models covering 7 languages, spoken language identification for 49 languages, and SimbaBench evaluation dataset. Introduced at EMNLP 2025 (paper: 'Voice of a Continent'); models hosted on HuggingFace under UBC-NLP. Confirmed live at github.com/UBC-NLP/simba with CC-BY-4.0 license. Distinct from african-whisper (ASR only), bibletts (TTS only), and spitch (commercial) already in registry.
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- 🇳🇬 Nigeria
- Last verified
- 10 Oct 2026
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