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Phoenix Rising Group’s Somali Speech Test

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A research-stage speech AI project preserving Horn of Africa languages through Somali transcription and archive digitization.

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Phoenix Rising Group publishes an unusually concrete comparison: its fine-tuned Whisper model reports a mean word error rate of 0.368 across 50 Somali speech clips, outperforming the commercial systems listed on the page. The larger project is to process broadcast, oral-history, and cultural archives from Djibouti, Somaliland, and the wider Horn of Africa.

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