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Kinyarwanda

Proto's strongest low-resource model, built alongside the National Bank of Rwanda deployment.

93.73%
ASR accuracy
6.27%
Word error rate
4/5
TTS score
Speed
Coverage

What Kinyarwanda supports today

TextAvailable

Understanding and reply in written conversation — the floor every language here has.

Audio messagingAvailable

Speech-to-text and text-to-speech for recorded voice notes, processed in batch, not live.

Voice streamingSoon

Live, real-time speech on a voice call — not yet built for any language.

Benchmarks

Measured against published targets

Measured performance of the deployed ASR and TTS models for Kinyarwanda, against Proto's target thresholds. Proto publishes these figures whether or not they clear the target.

ASR · speech-to-text
ASR accuracy
93.73% · Target ≥ 90% · cleared
Word error rate
6.27% · Target ≤ 10% · cleared
ASR fallback
4.93% · Target < 5% · cleared
ASR speed
1.75s · Target < 1s · 0.8s over target
TTS · text-to-speech
TTS mean opinion score
4/5 · Target ≥ 4.5 / 5 · 0.5/5 under target
TTS fallback
31.46% · Target < 5% · 26.5% over target
TTS speed
2.26s · Target < 1s · 1.3s over target

Mean opinion score rates the naturalness of synthesised speech on a 1–5 scale. Tests ran on an Azure Standard NC4as T4 v3 instance with an NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU; the ASR test set used audio samples of 5–10 seconds.

In production

Where Kinyarwanda is deployed

Kinyarwanda handles consumer protection across more than 600 supervised financial institutions for the National Bank of Rwanda, and citizen support for the Government of Rwanda.

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