vesmunger/NLP-Projects

Researching and Experimenting on NLP in African contexts # Kalenjin–Kiswahili Speech & Translation AI This project demonstrates an end-to-end **Natural Language Processing (NLP)** and **Text-to-Speech (TTS)** pipeline using a **Kalenjin–Kiswahili parallel corpus**. It showcases how to load linguistic datasets, generate speech, perform simple translations, and create basic AI-generated videos. --- ## Project Overview This notebook (`pochon.ipynb`) walks through a multi-stage AI workflow: - Loading and exploring a bilingual dataset - Generating speech using AI models - Translating between Kiswahili and Kalenjin - Creating simple videos from audio + images The project demonstrates **AI applications for African languages**, including: - Language preservation - Voice assistants - Education tools - Accessibility technologies --- ## Tech Stack - **Python** - **Transformers (Hugging Face)** – NLP & TTS models - **PyTorch** – GPU acceleration - **Pandas** – Data handling - **SoundFile** – Audio processing - **MoviePy** – Video generation --- ## Installation ```bash pip install transformers datasets soundfile accelerate -q pip install pandas pyarrow rustbpe tiktoken -q pip install moviepy -q