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Speech to text model · Liberia

mahkeh-ear v2.0

mahkeh-ear listens to Liberian speakers and writes down what they say, in English, Koloqua or Kpelle.

Speech → textEnglish + Koloqua + KpelleUp to about 2 minutes
Speak in the Playground
What it does
Spoken audio→Written text

Speech recognition for Liberian speakers.

Release notes

Current: v2.0

mahkeh-ear v2.0: Kpelle speech to text

CurrentNovember 2026

What’s new

  • Listens to Kpelle and writes it down, as well as Koloqua and English.

Known limits

Kpelle is our latest release in its early stage, and fast speech, heavy slang and noisy recordings still cause mistakes.

mahkeh-ear v1.0: Koloqua and English speech to text (first release)

October 2026

What’s new

  • Listens to Koloqua or English and writes down what was said, in the language you choose.
  • Handles the way Liberians mix Koloqua and English in one sentence.

Benchmark

Held-out recordings it never trained on, measured as word error rate (lower is better).

LanguageGeneral speech modelmahkeh-ear v1.0
Koloqua65.6%28.6%
English (Liberian accent)25.1%16.9%

Known limits

Fast speech, heavy slang and noisy recordings still cause mistakes.