README.md

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title: Swahili Voice Assistant
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sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 4.31.0
app_file: app.py
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🤖 Msaidizi wa Sauti wa Kiswahili (Swahili Voice Assistant)

This is a multi-modal Swahili assistant built with Gradio and Hugging Face Transformers.

Features:

• Speech-to-Speech: Talk to the assistant and get a spoken response.
• Text-to-Text: Chat with the assistant using text.
• Tools: Includes standalone tools for speech transcription and text-to-speech synthesis.

Models Used:

• ASR (STT): EYEDOL/SALAMA_C3 (You must replace this placeholder in app.py)
• LLM: google/gemma-2-9b-it
• TTS: A custom ONNX model based on facebook/mms-tts-swh.

NOTE: You must upload your swahili_tts.onnx file to this repository for the TTS functionality to work.