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# Center for Low-Resource Languages and Cultures (CLRLC)

CLRLC is a language research AI organisation building datasets, models, and benchmarks for African and other low-resource languages.

## What we build

- **Datasets:** speech and text corpora for African and other low-resource languages, including code-switched data
- **Models:** machine translation, speech (ASR and TTS), and NLP models for under-resourced languages
- **Benchmarks:** evaluation sets for low-resource, multilingual, and culturally grounded AI
- **Tooling:** pipelines and resources for ethical data collection and annotation

## Research areas

- Low-resource and multilingual NLP
- Machine translation
- Speech technology
- Code-switching (including Yoruba, Igbo, and Nigerian Pidgin)
- Culturally grounded evaluation and benchmarking
- AI governance for African languages

## Languages

African languages and other low-resource languages worldwide.

## Explore

Browse our datasets, models, and Spaces on this page. Learn more at https://clrlc.org or reach us at info@clrlc.org

## Citation

If you use our datasets or models, please cite the relevant repository or paper.