MbazaNLP Community

Building open-source language AI for Kinyarwanda and African languages

Models, datasets, and community tools, free for all — advancing linguistic technology through collaborative research and development.

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Speech Recognition (ASR)

Kinyarwanda speech-to-text models trained on community-collected audio data

Text-to-Speech (TTS)

Natural-sounding voice synthesis for African languages

Machine Translation

Open translation between Kinyarwanda, English, and French

Chatbots & Dialogue

Semantic chatbots and knowledge systems in Kinyarwanda

20+

Open models

Languages

100+

Open source

Africa-focused

About MbazaNLP

We are an open community building Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools for Kinyarwanda and other low-resource African languages.

Our work spans automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), machine translation, and semantic chatbots — all open-source and freely available. We welcome researchers, engineers, linguists, students, and anyone passionate about African language technology.

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GitHub

Source code, issues, and contributions

Slack

Day-to-day discussion and announcements

HuggingFace

Models, datasets, and Spaces