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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 (Sunbird v2), LLM (OpenAI realtime models, GPT5 Gemini 2.5 Pro) and MT (Google Translate and the LLMs to directly understand Kikuyu text). Early results show Sunbird v2 + Gemini 2.5 Pro.

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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