Soynade Research
Wolof models: ASR, Oolel LLM, TTS
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Last verified: 1 October 2026
Soynade Research is a startup building open technology for West African languages, prioritizing orality and offline access. Its Hugging Face space groups Wolof models (speech recognition, Oolel-Voices text-to-speech, Oolel LLMs) and six datasets.
Services
- Oolel-v0.1 (8B) and Oolel-Small-v0.1 (2B), text generation
- Oolel-Voices (0.5B), Wolof text-to-speech
- Wolof-HuBERT-CTC, speech recognition
- Oolel-Embed and Oolel-Corrector
- Wolof-ASR-Data (86.5k) and Wolof-Agri-Captions (20.7k) datasets
Access requirements
Public models and datasets on Hugging Face; each repository has its own license.
Sources
- Soynade Research (new tab), verified on 1 October 2026Official site consulted