Axiveri
AI RESEARCH
An open ecosystem of speech, language and vision models for African languages. Speech that carries emotion and expression, recognition that understands how people really talk, all free to build on.
Founded by Emmanuel Ariyo
8
open models
4
open datasets
2,500+
model and dataset downloads in the last 30 days
17
followers on Hugging Face
Four families, each published openly with weights, cards and examples.
Speech recognition
Speech recognition that understands Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Nigerian Pidgin and Nigerian accented English, including people switching between them mid-sentence. Version 2.0 is Whisper fine-tuned with LoRA and trained with noise so it holds up in real rooms.
NaijaVox 2.0: 691 downloads this month, plus a live demo
Text to speech and voice cloning
Multilingual text to speech and zero-shot voice cloning in one model, extended to handle writing it was never designed for, like Yoruba tone marks. Alongside it, Renpiper is a small, fast Nigerian Pidgin voice with an ONNX build for modest hardware.
Pidgin speech dataset: 1,438 downloads this month
Language models
Open language models tuned for African context, with AfriclaudeBench to measure how well any model actually understands it.
Africlaude-7B: 24 downloads this month
Image generation
A FLUX LoRA trained on AfriVision-30K, captioned images of African people, places and culture, so generated images look like the continent as it really is.
AfriVision-30K: 81 downloads this month
The data behind the models, cleaned and shared so others do not start from zero.
Weights, data and model cards are public on Hugging Face under open licences.
Tone marks, accents, code-switching and real recording conditions are part of the training, not an afterthought.
Every release is evaluated, word error rates for recognition and listening tests for voices, and the numbers are published.
Contributors, partners and supporters are welcome to build alongside us.
African AI research needs support. Every contribution goes directly toward model training, compute, and open-source development.
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