A W2VBERT Kikuyu speech model for ASR experiments and evaluation workflows.
This model is part of DeepSahel open African-language AI infrastructure work, supporting reusable model-development, evaluation, and documentation workflows for low-resource African languages.
Intended Use
African-language speech and text research
Kikuyu model evaluation and benchmarking
Public-interest language technology experiments
Downstream prototyping for education, health communication, agriculture, and civic information workflows
Limitations
Performance can vary across domains, dialects, speaker conditions, recording quality, and code-switched usage. Human review by fluent speakers is recommended before production use.
