Lean Language is in active build, speech AI for Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Swahili, Amharic, Zulu and Pidgin. Lean Language, African speech AI in active build. Learn more →
500 million Africans are invisible to AI. We are fixing that.
Global AI was built for English, Mandarin, and European languages. Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Pidgin, Swahili, Amharic, and Zulu were left out. Over 500 million Africans speak languages that no major AI understands.
LEANGOOGS AI is building the speech recognition, translation, and language data infrastructure that makes African languages first-class citizens of the AI era, across West Africa, East Africa, and Southern Africa.
Languages we are building for
Igbo
Nigeria · 45M speakers
Nigerian Pidgin
Nigeria · 75M speakers
Yoruba
Nigeria · 50M speakers
Hausa
West Africa · 60M speakers
Swahili
East Africa · 200M speakers
Amharic
Ethiopia · 57M speakers
Zulu
South Africa · 12M speakers
Code-switching
All languages, mixed naturally
Partners and letters of interest
Lean Language
Speech-to-speech translation for African languages.
Speak Igbo, Pidgin, Yoruba, Hausa, Swahili, or Amharic and be understood in English, and back again. Real-time, bidirectional, code-switching aware.
500M+ African speakers targeted
→Lean Dialect
Dialect and code-switching intelligence.
African speech is never just one language. A Swahili speaker mixes in English. A Hausa speaker switches to Pidgin. Lean Dialect identifies dialect regions and handles code-switching across all our supported languages as a first-class feature.
8 languages, 15+ dialects
→Lean Data Engine
The training data behind African AI.
A 15-field annotation pipeline built specifically for African speech, capturing dialect, code-switching level, tone, and transcript with precision. 10,000+ clips labeled and growing.
Data sovereign, local-first
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