codewithbro95/turaco

The first LLM that speaks native pidgin english fluently # Turaco **Turaco-8B** is the first large language model (LLM) fine-tuned specifically to fluently speak native Pidgin English. Built upon Meta's LLAMA3.1-8B base model, Turaco empowers users across Africa to communicate seamlessly in Pidgin English, from Cameroon to Nigeria and beyond. ## Features - Fluent in African Pidgin English (Cameroon, Nigeria, and other regions). - Trained using curated datasets from sources like Glosbe and other Pidgin language resources across the web. - Focused on natural, conversational responses in Pidgin English. ## Getting Started ### Model Download To download and use the fine-tuned Turaco model, you can visit the following link to Hugging Face: Download Turaco Model ### Training Notebook If you're interested in understanding how the model was trained or want to fine-tune it further, you can check out the fine-tuning notebook on Google Colab: Fine-tuning Notebook ## Contributing We welcome contributions from the community. Please refer to the `CONTRIBUTING.md` file for guidelines on how to get involved. ## License This project is licensed under a MIT license. Please see the `LICENSE.md` file for more information.