A practical offline ASR system for African languages.
# Voice Compass
A practical offline ASR system for African languages.
## Objective
Develop and evaluate multilingual speech recognition systems that can run offline on low-resource hardware.
## Competition
AfriVoices East Africa ASR Hackathon (2026)
## Status
Phase 1: Base model evaluation
## Current Capabilities
- Offline transcription
- CPU inference
- Faster Whisper integration
## Roadmap
- Base model comparison
- Dataset exploration
- Fine-tuning
- Hardware validation
- Kaggle submission