The best-served language on the continent, and the control case: where a language is genuinely covered, the only place left to compete is price and domain.
- afr
- Non-tonal
- 2 dialects
100 AI readiness
17m
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Served
110m
speakers, medium confidence estimate
76
AI readiness, weighted toward speech
2
dialects tracked as separate collection targets
Where the enterprise volume actually sits. Frontier ASR runs 24.7–35% WER on the accent generally — and 40–70% on African named entities, which is the number that decides whether a bank can deploy.Second-language speakers at a range of fluencies. The band is wide because 'speaks English' is a threshold nobody measures the same way twice.
Capability coverage
200+ hours of transcribed speech, commercial voices, big-tech support. Compete on domain, not capability.
The facts
Dialects
Dialect is self-declared at contribution and then validated against gold-standard clips. Which dialects people turn up to record in is a better demand signal than any desk ranking.
Open corpora that cover it
Voices · 2
Same family
Related
A Yoruba model helps Igbo less than the shared border suggests, and a Hausa model transfers usefully across Chadic languages in three other countries. These share Indo-European with Nigerian English.
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