--- title: README emoji: 🏢 colorFrom: red colorTo: green sdk: static pinned: false --- Ni yibeogo 🫡 🇧🇫 **Who are we?** A community of engineers, researchers, students and professionals building the next generation of open Burkinabé AI models aligned with our values, identity and culture. **Our goal** Build open-source **Moore** datasets and AI models. (Other local languages coming soon.) **What we do** Collect and curate datasets, train and evaluate models, and publish demos and reproducible artifacts for research and education. **Responsible use** Resources are released for research & educational use. Contributors must respect consent, provenance and licensing requirements. Commercial use requires permission from the BurkimbIA community. ### 🎙️ Live Demos - **ASR Demo**: [Automatic Speech Recognition](https://huggingface.co/spaces/sawadogosalif/demo-asr) - Try our Moore language speech-to-text - **Sachi Demo**: [Translation & voice Assistant](https://huggingface.co/spaces/sawadogosalif/demo-sachi) - Interactive AI assistant in Moore ### Leaderboards & Collections - 🏆 **[Leaderboards Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/burkimbia/leaderboards-68b379b1070cffb23702b7bc)** - Performance benchmarks for Moore AI models - 🎤 **[ASR Models Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/burkimbia/asr-68b37904a9437afa485e2b46)** - Speech recognition models for Burkinabé languages - 🌐 **[Translation Models Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/burkimbia/translation-models-68b378344625c60e48e18684)** - Language translation tools - 🗣️ **[TTS Models Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/burkimbia/tts-68b376e8d76075b6c48a2601)** - Text-to-speech synthesis models --- **To contribute** * **GitHub:** `[github.com/burkimbia]` * **Contact:** `[contact@burkimbia.com]` * **Our site:** `[https://burkimbia.com/]` **Become a Burkimbila** Help collect data, improve models, write docs, deploy or run evaluations — all contributions welcome. *Burkimbia - Building AI for Burkina Faso, by Burkina Faso* 🇧🇫