UNICEF WCARO NLP Landscape

West and Central Africa Language Technology
Last updated: 2026-04-23
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Dagbani

dag

🌍 General Information

dag
β€”
dagbani
dagb1246
Niger–Congo
Latin , Ajami (Arabic)
1.2 million
β€”
6160000 (10⁢+)
safe
Ghana
Dagbamba, Dagbane, Dagbanli, Dagomba

πŸ—ΊοΈ Language Use

Data from CLEAR Global's Language Use Data Platform.

πŸ‘₯ Actors (4)

AdwumaTech AI (Startup)

AdwumaTech AI provides enterprise-grade AI training data infrastructure powered by African engineering talent. Core offerings include RLHF for code ge...

Farmerline / Darli AI (Startup)

Ghanaian agritech company building technology solutions for smallholder farmers. Core platform Mergdata is a cloud-based farm management system used b...

Ghana NLP / Khaya AI (Research Community)

Ghana NLP is an open-source initiative focused on Natural Language Processing for Ghanaian and African languages. They developed Khaya, the first AI-p...

HCI and Persuasive Systems Lab, University of Ghana (University)

Research lab within the Department of Computer Science at University of Ghana, led by Prof. Isaac Wiafe. Focused on Human-Computer Interaction, persua...

πŸ€– NLP & Tech Resources

βœ“ AfroLID
βœ“ Mozilla Common Voice
βœ“ Fineweb2: πŸ’¬
βœ“ MMS-LID
βœ“ Omnilingual ASR
βœ“ WaxalNLP

πŸŽ™οΈ Common Voice

25.4
21274
8114
β™‚ 2.0% / ♀ 18.0%

Benchmarks

ASR (Speech-to-Text)

CV25

ModelWERCERSource
facebook/omniASR-LLM-3B33.679.6evaluated

Waxal

Common Voice 25

ModelWERCERSource
facebook/omniASR-LLM-7B27.787.67evaluated

MT (Machine Translation)

UDHR

πŸ“ Notes

Observations

  • Use Cases Document: Ghana AGOO platform priority language
  • Ghana has active UNICEF NLP work

ASR Models (1)

ModelDownloadsLikes
espnet/xeus 60 146

View on HuggingFace: dag: 1

TTS Models (23)

ModelSizeDownloadsLikes
k2-fsa/OmniVoice β€” 606.0K 577
drbaph/OmniVoice-bf16 β€” 4.7K 13
splendor1811/omnivoice-vietnamese 0.6B 672 2
gluschenko/omnivoice-onnx β€” 397 4
edwixx/OmniVoice β€” 163 0
WANJIAX2197/OmniVoice β€” 30 0
Bgeorge/OmniVoice β€” 25 1
yash3120/OmniVoice β€” 25 0
ex510/OmniVoice β€” 19 0
razi08/OmniVoice β€” 17 0
Manish993135/OmniVoice β€” 16 0
riasatsk/OmniVoice β€” 16 0
harsha7286/OmniVoice β€” 15 0
lopho/OmniVoice β€” 15 0
bilalRHCH/Arabic-text-to-speech β€” 14 0
phucpx247/OmniVoice β€” 14 0
gubernac/OmniVoice β€” 13 1
preference1/OmniVoice β€” 13 0
EBINSHAJI1999/OmniVoice β€” 12 0
Citrus-777/OmniVoice β€” 12 0

View on HuggingFace: dag: 23

MT Models (6)

ModelSizeDownloadsLikes
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-mul-mul 0.2B 442 10
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-deu_eng_fra_por_spa-mul 0.2B 88 1
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-mul-deu_eng_nld 0.2B 54 2
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-mul-deu_eng_fra_por_spa 0.2B 54 2
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-alv-deu_eng_fra_por_spa 0.2B 47 0
vonjack/opus-mt-mul-en-big 0.3B 39 4

View on HuggingFace: dag: 6

LLM Models (1)

ModelDownloadsLikes
wikilangs/dag 0 0

View on HuggingFace: dag: 1

Datasets

ASR Datasets (14)

DatasetRowsDownloadsLikes
google/WaxalNLP 2.6M 12.3K 219
ghananlpcommunity/navigation-corpus-speech-full-dagbani 1.5K 6.9K 0
claudefitz/WaxalNLP 2.6M 3.6K 0
BolajiJsAI/WaxalNLP 2.6M 2.5K 1
ngoloan/WaxalNLP 2.0M 2.1K 0
novelwolde36/WaxalNLP 2.5M 2.0K 1
Phsntom/WaxalNLP 2.6M 1.9K 0
Ephraimmm/WaxalNLPr 2.6M 1.8K 0
fiifinketia/WaxalNLP 2.5M 1.7K 1
zoelaenskii/zinny 2.6M 1.4K 1
0xzanuee/WaxalNLP 1.9M 1.4K 0
bdallhrajh371/WaxalNLP 2.6M 250 0
fiifinketia/navigation-corpus-dagbani-speech 52.8K 49 0
ghananlpcommunity/navigation-corpus-dagbani-speech 52.8K 36 0

View on HuggingFace: dag: 14

TTS Datasets (14)

DatasetRowsDownloadsLikes
google/WaxalNLP 2.6M 12.3K 219
ghananlpcommunity/navigation-corpus-speech-full-dagbani 1.5K 6.9K 0
claudefitz/WaxalNLP 2.6M 3.6K 0
BolajiJsAI/WaxalNLP 2.6M 2.5K 1
ngoloan/WaxalNLP 2.0M 2.1K 0
novelwolde36/WaxalNLP 2.5M 2.0K 1
Phsntom/WaxalNLP 2.6M 1.9K 0
Ephraimmm/WaxalNLPr 2.6M 1.8K 0
fiifinketia/WaxalNLP 2.5M 1.7K 1
zoelaenskii/zinny 2.6M 1.4K 1
0xzanuee/WaxalNLP 1.9M 1.4K 0
bdallhrajh371/WaxalNLP 2.6M 250 0
fiifinketia/navigation-corpus-dagbani-speech 52.8K 49 0
ghananlpcommunity/navigation-corpus-dagbani-speech 52.8K 36 0

View on HuggingFace: dag: 14

Translation Datasets (4)

DatasetRowsDownloadsLikes
ayymen/Pontoon-Translations 3.6M 1.1K 18
community-datasets/udhr β€” 123 2
cis-lmu/GlotStoryBook 80.1K 67 7
kargaranamir/GlotStoryBook-backup 80.1K 21 0

View on HuggingFace: dag: 4