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What does "Ahinya" mean?
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Big tech builds beautiful synthetic voices and AI models for English, French, and Mandarin — but Idoma, Igede, and hundreds of other Nigerian mother tongues are left without a single native voice, spellchecker, or translator. LinguaNaija exists to change that. Our long-term dream is to record, train, and release the first native AI voices for Idoma, Igede, and other minority Nigerian languages — so every child, no matter how "small" their language is said to be, can learn to read, write, and hear it spoken back to them.
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