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Research updates, dataset deep-dives, and platform announcements.

Mar 19, 2026
announcementopen-sourceasr

SAUTI ASR v1 is now open: Swahili speech recognition for everyone

Off-the-shelf ASR gets Swahili wrong one word in four. SAUTI ASR v1 cuts that in half. The model is open on HuggingFace with a live demo, Python and TypeScript SDKs, and API access.

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Mar 10, 2026
researchasr

How we halved Swahili speech recognition errors

Off-the-shelf multilingual ASR gets Swahili wrong one word in four. We fine-tuned on local Swahili data and halved that error rate to 13.5%. Here is what we learned.

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Feb 22, 2026
announcementtranslation

SAUTI Translate: speak your language, hear theirs

Two people, two languages, one conversation. We are building real-time English–Kiswahili voice translation that works through any pair of earphones.

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Jan 15, 2026
announcementplatform

Introducing FiniFlow Labs: building African language AI from the ground up

African languages are spoken by over a billion people yet remain largely absent from mainstream AI research. FiniFlow Labs is our answer — a research lab and API platform dedicated to closing that gap.

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