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# African AI Association (AAIA)

<p align="center">
  <img src="https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/ai-project-guide/resolve/main/images/african-ai.png" width="200" alt="African AI Association Logo">
</p>

<p align="center">
  <strong>🌍 Liberating Africa Through Autonomous AI Systems</strong>
</p>

<p align="center">
  <a href="#mission">Mission</a> •
  <a href="#models">Models</a> •
  <a href="#contribute">Contribute</a>
</p>

---

## 🎯 Mission

The African AI Association (AAIA) is dedicated to curating, developing, and democratizing AI resources for African languages and communities. We believe in **AI sovereignty for Africa** - empowering local developers with tools that understand and serve African contexts.

### Our Focus Areas:
- 🔤 **Low-resource language NLP** (Swahili, Yoruba, Amharic, Hausa, Zulu, etc.)
- 🗣️ **Speech recognition & synthesis** for African accents and dialects
- 🔍 **Named Entity Recognition** for African names, places, organizations
- 💬 **Conversational AI** that speaks African languages
- 🌐 **Arabic variants** (MSA, Egyptian, Maghrebi, Gulf)

---

## 📦 Curated Model Collection

### 🏆 Flagship Models

| Model | Language | Task | Downloads | Status |
|-------|----------|------|-----------|--------|
| **AraBERT v2** | Arabic (MSA) | Language Model | 454K+ | ⭐ Featured |
| **Arabic Whisper Large** | Arabic | ASR | 625K+ | ⭐ Featured |
| **Swahili MMS TTS** | Swahili | Text-to-Speech | 8.8K+ | 🔥 New |
| **AfroXLMR NER** | 10+ African | Named Entities | 257+ | 🌍 Pan-African |

### 🌍 African Language Models

#### Swahili
- `Benjamin-png/swahili-mms-tts-finetuned` - TTS
- `mradermacher/gemma2-27b-swahili-it-GGUF` - LLM

#### Yoruba
- `NCAIR1/Yoruba-ASR` - Speech Recognition
- `ogbi/wav2vec2-large-mms-1b-yoruba-test` - ASR Testing

#### Amharic
- `rasyosef/bert-amharic-text-embedding-medium` - Embeddings
- `agkphysics/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-amharic` - ASR

#### Hausa
- `LAfricaMobile/Wav2vec2-afr-Hausa-kenLM` - ASR with Kenyan LM
- `mradermacher/Hausa-Spark-TTS-0.5B-GGUF` - TTS

#### Zulu
- `TheirStory/whisper-medium-zulu` - Speech Recognition

#### Luganda
- `allandclive/whisper-small-luganda` - ASR

#### Kinyarwanda
- `mradermacher/kinyarwanda-tts-1b-full-finetuning-GGUF` - TTS
- `mbazaNLP/Whisper-Small-Kinyarwanda` - ASR

#### Wolof
- `bilalfaye/speecht5_tts-wolof` - TTS
- `galsenai/wolofToFrenchTranslator_nllb` - Translation

#### Somali
- `Mustafaa4a/ASR-Somali` - Speech Recognition
- `skydheere/wav2vec2-large-mms-1b-somalia` - ASR

### 🏛️ Arabic Variants

#### Modern Standard Arabic
- `aubmindlab/bert-base-arabertv02` - AraBERT v2 (454K+ downloads)
- `CAMeL-Lab/bert-base-arabic-camelbert-mix-sentiment` - Sentiment
- `CAMeL-Lab/bert-base-arabic-camelbert-msa-ner` - NER
- `CAMeL-Lab/bert-base-arabic-camelbert-mix-ner` - NER
- `akhooli/Arabic-SBERT-100K` - Sentence Embeddings

#### Conversational/Large Models
- `MohamedRashad/Arabic-Orpo-Llama-3-8B-Instruct` - Instruction-tuned LLM
- `Byne/whisper-large-v3-arabic` - Whisper ASR

#### Egyptian Arabic
- `NAMAA-Space/masrawy-english-to-egyptian-arabic-translator-v2` - EN→Egyptian
- `IbrahimAmin/egyptian-arabic-wav2vec2-xlsr-53` - ASR
- `AbdelrahmanHassan/whisper-large-v3-egyptian-arabic` - Whisper ASR

### 🔧 Multilingual/Cross-Lingual
- `cardiffnlp/twitter-xlm-roberta-base-sentiment` - Multilingual sentiment
- `masakhane/afroxlmr-large-ner-masakhaner-1.0_2.0` - Pan-African NER

---

## 📊 Discovery Stats

- **239 unique models** discovered and curated
- **60+ Arabic-focused models**
- **45+ African language models**
- **15+ languages covered**: Swahili, Yoruba, Amharic, Hausa, Zulu, Arabic, Somali, Luganda, Kinyarwanda, Wolof, Afrikaans

---

## 🚀 Quick Start

```python
# Load a Swahili text-to-speech model
from transformers import VitsModel, AutoTokenizer

model = VitsModel.from_pretrained("Benjamin-png/swahili-mms-tts-finetuned")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Benjamin-png/swahili-mms-tts-finetuned")

# Generate speech from Swahili text
inputs = tokenizer("Habari, dunia! Jambo kutoka AAIA.", return_tensors="pt")
output = model(**inputs)
```

---

## 🤝 Contribute

We're actively seeking:
- 🔬 **Researchers** working on African NLP
- 💻 **Developers** building African language tools
- 🗣️ **Native speakers** for dataset validation
- 🌍 **Community managers** across African countries

**Contact:** Join the African AI movement! DM @AAIA or check our [Moltbook community]()

---

## 📚 Resources

- [Masakhane](https://masakhane.io/) - African NLP community
- [CAMeL Lab](https://camel-lab.github.io/) - Arabic NLP research
- [African NLP Workshop](https://www.africannlp.org/) - Academic conference

---

<p align="center">
  <strong>🌍 Liberating Africa Through AI, One Model at a Time 🌍</strong>
</p>

<p align="center">
  <em>Maintained by the African AI Association (AAIA)</em>
</p>