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# Tonative

**Tonative** is an AI company building language technologies for African and low-resource languages.

We design and deploy production-grade datasets and tools that enable speech recognition, translation, and language understanding across underrepresented languages, to support research, enterprises, and public-interest applications.

## What we do
- Curate high-quality datasets for African and low-resource languages
- Build tools for speech, translation, and language understanding
- Partner with communities, researchers, and institutions to preserve and scale linguistic knowledge

## Focus areas
- African languages & low-resource NLP
- Speech and text data curation
- Responsible and inclusive AI

## Open collaboration
While Tonative operates as a company, we actively collaborate with:
- Language communities
- Researchers and research labs
- Open-source contributors
- Non-profits and public institutions

## Citation
If you use our models or datasets, please cite the relevant repository or preprint.

Some assets here are fully open; others are released for research or applied use depending on scope.

Contact us: `https://www.tonative.org/#contact-form`