Running Chichewa Speech to Text (STT) inference via ONNX

In this article, I will show how we converted Dunstan Matekenya’s Chichewa Whisper model to ONNX and running it within Python. Chichewa is one of the national languages of Malawi, fondly known as the warm heart of Africa. Our home. Chichewa is considered a low-resource language and there are not that many resources around transcription and audio based models for it. Fortunately, there is an ongoing effort to change this status quo, which we are eager to support by putting into practical implementation. [Read More]

Tingoyenera kukhaladi mavenda

This article is written in Chichewa. I wanted to try something different. Here goes nothing Mawu oti venda nthawi zambiri amatikumbutsa anyamata ndi amayi a mtawuni kapena kumsika omwe amagulitsa zinthu zosiyanasiyana monga nsapato, katundu wa magetsi ndi zina zambiri. Mavenda timawaona mosiyanabe ndi anthu a bizinesi zokhazikika. Koma tikabwela ku nkhani zokhuza Software, mawu okuti Software Vendor amatipatsa malingaliro a makampani aakulu monga Microsoft, ndi Oracle. Koteleko Software Vendor amakhala wolemekezeka ndithu. [Read More]