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Babalang Builds a Voice Layer for African Languages
A voice-AI platform for speech recognition, text-to-speech, and emotion-preserving video dubbing across African languages.
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The platform groups transcription, synthesis, translation, dubbing, code-switching, and language-track management into one localization workflow. Its visible demonstrations use Yorùbá, while Igbo, Hausa, and Nigerian Pidgin are identified as being in training. The site reports testing on 3- to 5-second audio slices drawn from NaijaVoices, FLEURS, and Google Waxal, and says the current recognition model was trained only on NaijaVoices.
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