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Oolel-Embed maps spoken Wolof queries and written French documents into a shared embedding space, enabling direct cross-lingual retrieval without a separate transcription-and-translation chain.
Oolel Voices is our open-source text-to-speech model for Wolof and mixed Wolof-French. Try the interactive demo to generate natural speech with voice cloning.
Announcing Soynade's Open Source Month: four weeks of models, datasets, and tools for African languages.
Soynade Research joins UNICEF Venture Fund as one of 7 organizations selected from 1,000 applications to build open-source AI solutions for West African languages.
We present the first speech language model for Wolof, achieving 18.4% ASR improvement through continued pretraining on 860 hours of spontaneous speech and integration with a Wolof LLM.
