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# Novax AI Lab
### Building AI that understands Africa's languages.
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<strong>Artificial Intelligence • Speech Technology • Language Models • Open Source</strong>
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*"Every language deserves a place in the future of AI."*
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## 🌍 About Us
Novax AI Lab is an AI research and product company based in Sierra Leone.
Our mission is to make artificial intelligence accessible to every African by building technology that understands, speaks, and translates indigenous languages — beginning with Sierra Leonean languages and expanding across Africa.
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## ✅ What We've Shipped
### 🎙️ Speech-to-Text (STT) — *Krio, beta*
### 🔊 Text-to-Speech (TTS) — *Krio, beta*
Both are live in beta today. Feedback from real usage is shaping the next release.
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## 🚧 What We're Building Next
### More languages for STT & TTS
- 🇸🇱 **Sierra Leone:** Mende, Temne, Fula, Soso, Limba
- 🇱🇷 **Liberia:** Kpelle, Kissi
- 🇬🇭 **Ghana:** Akan (Twi, Fante, Akuapem), Ewe, Dagbani
### 🌐 Machine Translation
- English ↔ Krio
- Krio ↔ Mende, Krio ↔ Temne, Mende ↔ Temne
- English ↔ other African languages (above)
### 🎧 Speech-to-Speech Translation
Speak naturally, listen naturally — no text step in between.
### 🤖 AI Assistants
Applications planned for education, healthcare, government, customer support, agriculture, and finance.
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## 🔬 Research Areas
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Speech Recognition & Text-to-Speech
- Speech Translation
- Multilingual NLP
- African Language AI
- Machine Learning / Deep Learning
- Generative AI
- Voice Agents
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## 🌍 Why We Exist
Over a billion people speak languages that modern AI barely understands. We're changing that — ensuring African languages are first-class citizens in the age of AI.
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## 🛠️ Open Source
We believe open collaboration accelerates innovation. As models and datasets move out of beta, this org will host:
- AI Models
- Datasets
- Training Pipelines
- Research Projects
- Developer Tools & APIs
- Sample Applications
Contributions from researchers, developers, linguists, and students are welcome.
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## 🤝 Collaborate With Us
We're looking to work with AI researchers, ML engineers, linguists, universities, NGOs, governments, startups, and open source contributors.
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## 📫 Connect
🌐 Website: [novaxailab.com](https://novaxailab.com)
🤗 Hugging Face: [huggingface.co/NovaxAILab](https://huggingface.co/NovaxAILab)
💻 GitHub: [github.com/Novax-AI-Lab](https://github.com/Novax-AI-Lab)
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### Building AI for Every African Language.
**Made with ❤️ in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱**
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