Journal — research, language, progress.
Why Does Voice technology matter?
One evening in Niamey, the electricity went out while my family was sitting together outside.
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Discover the latest Namu voice models, built for the way people speak.
Namu-InterpretHausa and French, carried both ways in speech. One side talks, the other hears it in their own language, and the conversation keeps its pace.
Namu-TranscribeTurn Hausa speech into accurate text, across accents, dialects and the noisy rooms people record in.
Namu-VoiceNatural, expressive Hausa speech from written text, shaped to be understood the first time it is heard.
Namu-AgentAn end-to-end conversation in Hausa. It listens, works out what you need, and answers out loud.
Speech-native tools for people and for the teams building on top of us.
Namu StudioA workspace where you can speak, and be understood, in your own language.
Namu AppEveryday speech-native assistance, on the device already in your hand.
Namu APIClean APIs, SDKs, and deployment tools, so any team can integrate speech-native AI.
Notes from the team on speech, language, and building AI for African communities.
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Winning the Swahili ASR challenge on a single 16GB GPU6 min readOne evening in Niamey, the electricity went out while my family was sitting together outside.
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