
Mansa.v1 by Spitch is a 1.4b parameter ASR model built for African Accented Creators and Users.
Mansa is the first in a series of models that Spitch would be showcasing and I believe it does starts to fill in the lapses notable in other models when it comes to African Language nuances.
Cool stuff Mansa packs: ✨ African named entity recognition ✨ Custom spelling guidance for special words. ✨ Sentence or Word-level timestamps for audio