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Oolel Voices: Open-Source Text-to-Speech for Wolof
2026-03-12
Soynade Research
We are releasing Oolel-Voices, a text-to-speech model for Wolof and mixed Wolof-French speech.
What it does
- Trained on natural, spontaneous Wolof speech
- Handles mixed Wolof-French text, reflecting how people actually speak in West Africa
- Accepts a short audio clip as a voice prompt to match a speaking style
- Parameters let you control expressiveness, randomness, and voice fidelity
Try it and access the model
- Hugging Face: huggingface.co/spaces/soynade-research/Oolel-Voices
Questions or feedback: contact@soynade.ai