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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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