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Repository forks
Active community use
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Papers in preparation
Somali NLP & speech research
4
Bootcamp cohorts
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887M+
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Largest open Somali text corpus
320h
Speech hours annotated
Word-level alignment
Community reach by country
Self-reported bootcamp enrollment (Feb 2026 DS & ML cohort).
🇸🇴Somalia
52%
🇪🇹Ethiopia
14%
🇰🇪Kenya
10%
🇬🇧United Kingdom
7%
🇺🇸United States
6%
🌍Other
11%
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