ethiopian-Demts/amharic
Domain:
natural language processingRecord type:
modelsoftware
Creator:
eth
Host:
ድምፄ — Ethiopian Languages AI. Mirror of HF ethiopian-Demtse/amharic
# ድምፄ — Ethiopian Languages AI 🇪🇹
ለኢትዮጵያ 80+ ቋንቋዎች ክፍት ምንጭ የድምጽ AI
Open-source speech AI for Ethiopia's 80+ languages
🤖 Amharic TTS Model •
🎙️ Live Demo •
🌍 Voices For All
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## 🎯 Mission / ተልዕኮ
**ድምፄ (Demtse — "my voice")** builds free, open-source speech AI so 120M+ Ethiopians can access technology in their mother tongue.
Ethiopia has 80+ living languages. Big Tech supports almost none of them. We're changing that — one language at a time, starting with the highest-quality open Amharic TTS ever built.
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## 🗣️ Models
### OmniVoice Amharic — TTS + Voice Cloning
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|---|---|
| **What it does** | Converts Amharic text to natural speech; clones any voice from 10s audio |
| **Architecture** | Non-autoregressive discrete diffusion (612.6M params) |
| **Training data** | 331 hours across 4 datasets |
| **Best loss** | 3.9518 |
| **License** | Apache 2.0 — completely free |
| **Try it** | ▶️ Live Demo |
| **Download** | 📦 Model |
```python
# Quick start — runs on free Colab T4
!pip install -q omnivoice soundfile
from omnivoice import OmniVoice, OmniVoiceGenerationConfig
import torch
model = OmniVoice.from_pretrained("ethiopian-Demtse/omnivoice-amharic", device_map="cuda:0", dtype=torch.float16)
audio = model.generate(text="ሰላም፣ እንኳን ደህና መጣችሁ!", language="Amharic",
generation_config=OmniVoiceGenerationConfig(num_step=32, guidance_scale=2.0))
```
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## 🇪🇹 Roadmap — Ethiopian Languages
| ቋንቋ / Language | ተናጋሪ / Speakers | ሁኔታ / Status |
|---|---|---|
| **አማርኛ** Amharic | 60M+ | ✅ TTS + Voice Cloning |
| **ኦሮምኛ** Afaan Oromoo | 40M+ | 🔜 Next |
| **ትግርኛ** Tigrinya | 10M+ | 🔜 Planned |
| **ሶማሊኛ** Somali | 7M+ | 🔜 Planned |
| **ሲዳምኛ** Sidamo | 4M+ | 📋 Future |
| **ወላይትኛ** Wolaytta | 3M+ | 📋 Future |
| **ጉራግኛ** Gurage | 2M+ | 📋 Future |
| **ሐዲይኛ** Hadiyya | 2M+ | 📋 Future |
| **አፋርኛ** Afar | 2M+ | 📋 Future |
| **ገሞኛ** Gamo | 1.5M+ | 📋 Future |
**Goal:** TTS + voice cloning for every Ethiopian language with 50h+ available audio.
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## 📚 Training Data …