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A workspace for the Gates Foundation DPI, FairFoward and Gooey teams focused on evals for low-resource languages plus the home of our Agriculture advisory work e.g. https://gooey.ai/ageval

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Here we compare the the top Kikuyu ASR (Akera, MMS), LLM (OpenAI realtime models, GPT5, GPT5-mini and Gemini 2.5 Pro) and MT (Google Translate, GhanaNLP and the LLMs to directly understand Kikuyu text). Early results show Sunbird v2 + Gemini 2.5 Pro works best.

(26 Qs Updated December 2025)

Benchmark Results

Sunbird v2 + Gemini 3 Pro leads!

Results
The top‑achieving Kikuyu benchmark in this workflow is Workflow 3 – “Kikuyu (Akera + Gem3pro)”, with an average similarity score of 0.78 against the reference transcripts. This setup combines Akera’s Kikuyu‑focused ASR with Gemini 3 Pro for post‑processing/translation, and it consistently delivers the closest match to the ground‑truth text across the 26 audio clips—slightly outperforming the Omnilingual + Gemini and Omnilingual + MT + GPT‑5.1 pipelines, and dramatically better than the baseline GPT‑Realtime audio route in this test set.

Info

This workflow benchmarks multiple Kikuyu speech-to-text pipelines on the same audio dataset. It compares GPT‑4o audio, Akera GPT‑5.1, Gemini 3 Pro, Omni and Kikuyu → English pipelines with Google Machine Translation.

Workflows covered

  • GPT‑4o Audio – Kikuyu ASR
  • Akera + MT + Gemini3 Pro
  • Akera + GPT‑5.1 – Kikuyu-focused ASR & NLP
  • Omnilingual + Gemini3 Pro– Kikuyu → English
  • Omnilingual + MT + Gemini3 Pro – multimodal Kikuyu ASR
  • Omnilingual + MT + GPT-5.1

Data & Evaluation

Kikuyu audio & reference transcripts from Google Sheets
Automated evaluator: compare-output-text-from-input_audio for text similarity and quality scoring.

Ideal for teams comparing Kikuyu speech recognition, Kikuyu audio transcription, and Kikuyu → English translation for call centers, media, education, and African-language AI applications.

Keywords: Kikuyu speech-to-text, Kikuyu ASR, Kikuyu audio transcription, Kikuyu to English translation, Akera AI Swahili, GPT‑4o audio Kikuyu, Gemini Pro Kikuyu transcription, Google MT Kikuyu.

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