Speech synthesis

Namu-Voice

Turn Hausa text into speech people want to listen to.

Features

Namu-Voice reads Hausa the way people say it, not the way it is written. Tone, vowel length and the rhythm of a sentence all come through. And every voice it uses is one somebody agreed to give.

Realistic expression

Organic pacing, tone and emotional range that sound like a person, not a text-to-speech engine.

Voice

Kanya

Joy

Emotion

Instant voice matching

Give it a short clip of someone speaking, with their permission, and it can read in their voice. No training run, no dataset to gather.

Built for the people

Stable, high-fidelity output that holds the same speaker across an hour of audio.

  • Radio
  • Public health
  • Classrooms
  • Audiobooks
  • Announcements

Natural across eight Hausa dialects

Hausa is not one accent. The model is trained and measured on the varieties people speak across Niger, from Maradi to Zinder.

MaradiZinderTahouaTessaouaKonniDogondoutchiMadaouaMirriah

Using the model

Hausa speech, live and on demand.

Samples generated with Namu-Voice

Health broadcast

Ku zo asibiti gobe daga karfe takwas na safe zuwa karfe biyu na rana, domin allurar rigakafi ga yara 'yan kasa da shekaru biyar. Ba a biyan komai.

Kanya

Market report

Farashin gero a Dawanau ya kai dubu talatin da biyar kan buhu. A Jibia kuwa, dubu talatin da uku. Masara ta tsaya kan dubu ashirin da takwas.

Marke

Story reading

Da daddare, iska ta fara busawa daga gabas. Kowa ya shiga gida, sai tsohuwa daya tak ta zauna a bakin kofa tana jiran dawowar jikanta.

Baobab

Performance

Leading on naturalness in Hausa

Namu-Voice holds its speaker across long passages and starts speaking fast enough to hold a conversation.

4.42/ 5

Mean opinion score

Native listener panel, n=320

180ms

Time to first audio

Streaming, p50

27×

Faster than real time

Single A100, batch of 1

8

Dialects covered

Nigeria and Niger

Listen across dialects

Joy example

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Sorrow example

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Try Namu-Voice

Namu Playground

Type a line of Hausa and hear it back in any of the four voices.

Try in playground

Namu API

Stream speech into your own product, with the same voices and consent controls.

Contact sales

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