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ድምፄ — Ethiopian Languages AI 🇪🇹

ለኢትዮጵያ 80+ ቋንቋዎች ክፍት ምንጭ የድምጽ AI
Open-source speech AI for Ethiopia's 80+ languages

🤖 Amharic TTS Model • 🎙️ Live Demo • 🌍 Voices For All

🎯 Mission / ተልዕኮ

ድምፄ (Demtse — "my voice") builds free, open-source speech AI so 120M+ Ethiopians can access technology in their mother tongue.

Ethiopia has 80+ living languages. Big Tech supports almost none of them. We're changing that — one language at a time, starting with the highest-quality open Amharic TTS ever built.

🗣️ Models

OmniVoice Amharic — TTS + Voice Cloning


What it does	Converts Amharic text to natural speech; clones any voice from 10s audio
Architecture	Non-autoregressive discrete diffusion (612.6M params)
Training data	331 hours across 4 datasets
Best loss	3.9518
License	Apache 2.0 — completely free
Try it	▶️ Live Demo
Download	📦 Model

python

# Quick start — runs on free Colab T4
!pip install -q omnivoice soundfile
from omnivoice import OmniVoice, OmniVoiceGenerationConfig
import torch

model = OmniVoice.from_pretrained("ethiopian-Demtse/omnivoice-amharic", device_map="cuda:0", dtype=torch.float16)
audio = model.generate(text="ሰላም፣ እንኳን ደህና መጣችሁ!", language="Amharic",
    generation_config=OmniVoiceGenerationConfig(num_step=32, guidance_scale=2.0))

🇪🇹 Roadmap — Ethiopian Languages

ቋንቋ / Language	ተናጋሪ / Speakers	ሁኔታ / Status
አማርኛ Amharic	60M+	✅ TTS + Voice Cloning
ኦሮምኛ Afaan Oromoo	40M+	🔜 Next
ትግርኛ Tigrinya	10M+	🔜 Planned
ሶማሊኛ Somali	7M+	🔜 Planned
ሲዳምኛ Sidamo	4M+	📋 Future
ወላይትኛ Wolaytta	3M+	📋 Future
ጉራግኛ Gurage	2M+	📋 Future
ሐዲይኛ Hadiyya	2M+	📋 Future
አፋርኛ Afar	2M+	📋 Future
ገሞኛ Gamo	1.5M+	📋 Future

Goal: TTS + voice cloning for every Ethiopian language with 50h+ available audio.

📚 Training Data

Dataset	Hours	Language
google/WaxalNLP	~200h	Amharic
gheero-Leyu/leyu-amharic-addis-ababa-dialect	~50h	Amharic (Addis)
surafelabebe/amharic_clear_audio_tts	~40h	Amharic
chappM/amharic-bdu-asr	~41h	Amharic
Total	~331h

We actively collect data for Oromo, Tigrinya, and other Ethiopian languages. If you have audio recordings in any Ethiopian language, please reach out.

🛠️ What We Build

Project	Description	Status
Text-to-Speech (TTS)	ጽሑፍ → ንግግር	✅ Amharic done
Voice Cloning	10 ሰከንድ ናሙና → ማንኛውም ድምጽ	✅ Amharic done
Speech Recognition (ASR)	ንግግር → ጽሑፍ	📋 Planned
Language Models (NLP)	የቋንቋ ሞዴሎች	📋 Planned
Machine Translation	ትርጉም በኢትዮጵያ ቋንቋዎች	📋 Planned

🤝 How to Contribute / ለማዋጣት

We welcome contributions from anyone:

Way to help	Description
🎙️ Donate audio	Record or share speech in any Ethiopian language (any dialect, any speaker)
💻 Code	Open Issues, submit PRs, improve training pipelines
📝 Data	Text transcriptions, translations, text-audio pairs
🏫 Institutions	Universities and organizations: partner with us for data collection
🧪 Evaluate	Native speakers: test our models and give feedback on naturalness
💰 Fund	Support compute costs and data collection

🌍 Part of Voices For All

ድምፄ is the Ethiopian chapter of Voices For All (african-low-resource) — a pan-African initiative building speech AI for languages left behind by Big Tech.

Initiative	Focus
african-low-resource	Pan-African: Amharic, Wolof, Hausa, Swahili, Somali
ethiopian-Demtse	Ethiopia-specific: all 80+ Ethiopian languages

📬 Contact

Organization: ethiopian-Demtse
Lead: demeleww
Email: sowwen0@gmail.com
Parent: Voices For All / african-low-resource

📝 Citation

bibtex

@software{ethiopian_demtse_2026,
  author = {demeleww and ethiopian-Demtse},
  title = {ድምፄ: Open Speech AI for Ethiopian Languages},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/ethiopian-Demtse},
  license = {Apache-2.0}
}

❤️ ለ120 ሚሊዮን+ ኢትዮጵያውያን — በራሳቸው ቋንቋ የ AI ድምጽ ይገባቸዋል።
For 120M+ Ethiopians who deserve a voice in AI.

ethiopian-Demtse/amharic