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Neural Translation Model

Low-resource machine translation between English, Otjiherero, and Rumanyo. Built on top of Meta's pretrained NLLB-200 base architecture and custom fine-tuned on curated rural Namibian corpora.

Quick sample prompts:
Input (English)
Max 150 characters0 / 150
Translation (Otjiherero)

Translation will appear here once submitted.

Target: Otjiherero

Still learning

This AI is still learning, so it can make mistakes. More data is needed to make it better.

This work continues into a Masters programme covering a voice model, a text model that runs on-device, and an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model.

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