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

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🎯 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.

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🗣️ Models

OmniVoice Amharic — TTS + Voice Cloning

# 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))

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🇪🇹 Roadmap — Ethiopian Languages

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

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📚 Training Data

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

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🛠️ What We Build

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🤝 How to Contribute

We welcome contributions from anyone:

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🌍 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.

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📬 Contact

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

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📝 Citation

@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}
}

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