Speedykom/husika-tts-icpac

Husika is a Swahili word meaning "to be concerned, to be involved" — to be reached, and to take part. The Husika platform (husika.icpac.net) is an early-warning information system operated by ICPAC that delivers weather forecasts, drought updates, crop advisories and early-warning alerts to smallholder farmers and pastoralists across the IGAD regio # Husika TTS **The voice layer of the Husika early-warning platform** — multilingual Text-to-Speech that turns written drought and weather alerts into spoken audio in the languages of the Greater Horn of Africa. > **Developed by Speedykom GmbH** for the Husika > early-warning platform operated by **ICPAC** (IGAD Climate Prediction and > Applications Centre). Produced under the **Peaceful and Resilient Borderlands > Programme (PRBP)**, implemented by **GIZ** within the **SCIDA III** framework in > support of **IGAD**, and **co-funded by the European Union and the German Federal > Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)**.                             Co-funded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)  ·  Implemented by GIZ  ·  In partnership with IGAD & ICPAC  ·  Developed by Speedykom --- ## What is Husika? *Husika* is a Swahili word meaning **"to be concerned, to be involved"** — to be reached, and to take part. The Husika platform (husika.icpac.net) is an early-warning information system operated by ICPAC that delivers weather forecasts, drought updates, crop advisories and early-warning alerts to smallholder farmers and pastoralists across the IGAD region over web, mobile and SMS. This repository is the **Text-to-Speech (TTS) service** behind that platform. It converts the alerts Husika sends into natural-sounding speech, so that people who cannot read a text message — or who speak a language that is rarely written — can still **hear** the warning in their own language and act on it. Send it **text + a language code**, and it returns **spoken audio**. ## Why it matters Drought in the Greater Horn of Africa affects **over 18 million** smallholder farmers and pastoralists. Cross-border communities in the **Karamoja …