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title: Swahili Voice Assistant
emoji: 🤖🇹🇿
colorFrom: green
colorTo: blue
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: "4.31.0"
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
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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.