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The Yorùbá Names Lexicography Initiative

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Ongoing Projects

Ongoing Projects (Lexicography)
  • YorubaName.com | Dictionary of Names (2015)
  • IgboNames.com | Ongoing dictionary of Igbo Names (in development)
  • TTSYoruba | Text to speech Yorùbá pronunciation app (2017)
  • YorubaLyrics.ng
  • YorubaWord.com | The first monolingual multimedia dictionary of Yorùbá
  • Yorùbá and Igbo tonemarking keyboard (2016)
  • Yorùbá Melody: a 90-minute language audiobook in four languages (news| soundcloud link) - 2018
Ongoing Projects (Research)
  • AI4Development Grant (2023) | NiLE: Leveraging Machine Translation and Text-to-Speech Technologies for Disseminating Educational content in Native Nigerian languages
  • YorubaVoice (2022) | Research project supported by Imminent Translated to collect 50 hours of Yorùbá audio

News

Research Grants Ceremony. Innovations in language technology
In Africa, rescuing the languages that Western tech ignores

Team & Collaborators

  • Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
  • Dadepo Aderemi
  • David Adelani
  • Aremu Adeola
  • Iroro Orife
  • Tolulope Ogunremi
  • Jesujoba O. Alabi
  • Kọ́lá Adeniyi
  • Tejumade Afonja
  • NaijaNLP

Let's make something big. Together.

For free and open use of the TTSYoruba API, to support us or seek other collaborations, and to volunteer in any way, write to us at project@yorubaname.com