Commercially dense in trade and diaspora remittances. Absent from AWS Transcribe entirely and capped at Chirp 2 on Google.
- ibo
- Tonal
- 6 dialects
49 AI readiness
33m
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Low-resource
46m
speakers, medium confidence estimate
49
AI readiness, weighted toward speech
7
dialects tracked as separate collection targets
Lagos-concentrated, so co-located with the buyers. Absent from ElevenLabs TTS, AWS Transcribe and Google Chirp 3; ElevenLabs' own published STT band for it is 25–50% WER.
Capability coverage
Some open data and big-tech ASR, but no production TTS. Demand exists; quality does not.
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 Niger–Congo with Yoruba.
Commercially dense in trade and diaspora remittances. Absent from AWS Transcribe entirely and capped at Chirp 2 on Google.
49 AI readiness
33m
The highest-value regional asset after Hausa: cross-border into Niger, Cameroon and Chad, with strong humanitarian and agricultural demand.
18 AI readiness
20m±
State-government and healthcare procurement is the realistic route in. No vendor covers it and no open corpus of scale exists.
5 AI readiness
11m±
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