African AI Association (AAIA)

🌍 Liberating Africa Through Autonomous AI Systems

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🎯 Mission

The African AI Association (AAIA) is dedicated to curating, developing, and democratizing AI resources for African languages and communities. We believe in AI sovereignty for Africa - empowering local developers with tools that understand and serve African contexts.

Our Focus Areas:

• 🔤 Low-resource language NLP (Swahili, Yoruba, Amharic, Hausa, Zulu, etc.)
• 🗣️ Speech recognition & synthesis for African accents and dialects
• 🔍 Named Entity Recognition for African names, places, organizations
• 💬 Conversational AI that speaks African languages
• 🌐 Arabic variants (MSA, Egyptian, Maghrebi, Gulf)

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📦 Curated Model Collection

🏆 Flagship Models

🌍 African Language Models

Swahili

• Benjamin-png/swahili-mms-tts-finetuned - TTS
• mradermacher/gemma2-27b-swahili-it-GGUF - LLM

Yoruba

• NCAIR1/Yoruba-ASR - Speech Recognition
• ogbi/wav2vec2-large-mms-1b-yoruba-test - ASR Testing

Amharic

• rasyosef/bert-amharic-text-embedding-medium - Embeddings
• agkphysics/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-amharic - ASR

Hausa

• LAfricaMobile/Wav2vec2-afr-Hausa-kenLM - ASR with Kenyan LM
• mradermacher/Hausa-Spark-TTS-0.5B-GGUF - TTS

Zulu

• TheirStory/whisper-medium-zulu - Speech Recognition

Luganda

• allandclive/whisper-small-luganda - ASR

Kinyarwanda

• mradermacher/kinyarwanda-tts-1b-full-finetuning-GGUF - TTS
• mbazaNLP/Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda - ASR

Wolof

• bilalfaye/speecht5_tts-wolof - TTS
• galsenai/wolofToFrenchTranslator_nllb - Translation

Somali

• Mustafaa4a/ASR-Somali - Speech Recognition
• skydheere/wav2vec2-large-mms-1b-somalia - ASR

🏛️ Arabic Variants

Modern Standard Arabic

• aubmindlab/bert-base-arabertv02 - AraBERT v2 (454K+ downloads)
• CAMeL-Lab/bert-base-arabic-camelbert-mix-sentiment - Sentiment
• CAMeL-Lab/bert-base-arabic-camelbert-msa-ner - NER
• CAMeL-Lab/bert-base-arabic-camelbert-mix-ner - NER
• akhooli/Arabic-SBERT-100K - Sentence Embeddings

Conversational/Large Models

• MohamedRashad/Arabic-Orpo-Llama-3-8B-Instruct - Instruction-tuned LLM
• Byne/whisper-large-v3-arabic - Whisper ASR

Egyptian Arabic

• NAMAA-Space/masrawy-english-to-egyptian-arabic-translator-v2 - EN→Egyptian
• IbrahimAmin/egyptian-arabic-wav2vec2-xlsr-53 - ASR
• AbdelrahmanHassan/whisper-large-v3-egyptian-arabic - Whisper ASR

🔧 Multilingual/Cross-Lingual

• cardiffnlp/twitter-xlm-roberta-base-sentiment - Multilingual sentiment
• masakhane/afroxlmr-large-ner-masakhaner-1.0_2.0 - Pan-African NER

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📊 Discovery Stats

• 239 unique models discovered and curated
• 60+ Arabic-focused models
• 45+ African language models
• 15+ languages covered: Swahili, Yoruba, Amharic, Hausa, Zulu, Arabic, Somali, Luganda, Kinyarwanda, Wolof, Afrikaans

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🚀 Quick Start

# Load a Swahili text-to-speech model
from transformers import VitsModel, AutoTokenizer

model = VitsModel.from_pretrained("Benjamin-png/swahili-mms-tts-finetuned")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Benjamin-png/swahili-mms-tts-finetuned")

# Generate speech from Swahili text
inputs = tokenizer("Habari, dunia! Jambo kutoka AAIA.", return_tensors="pt")
output = model(**inputs)

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🤝 Contribute

We're actively seeking:

• 🔬 Researchers working on African NLP
• 💻 Developers building African language tools
• 🗣️ Native speakers for dataset validation
• 🌍 Community managers across African countries

Contact: Join the African AI movement! DM @AAIA or check our Moltbook community

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📚 Resources

• Masakhane - African NLP community
• CAMeL Lab - Arabic NLP research
• African NLP Workshop - Academic conference

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