Lelapa AI
Lelapa AI is a privately held language-technology company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. It operates as a research and product lab. Pelonomi Moiloa is CEO. The company develops African-language systems with a focus on limited computing resources and practical deployment.
Models & tools
- InkubaLM 0.4B
Lelapa AI · InkubaLM
A compact text model trained from scratch for five African languages, with English and French also in its training data.
Launch date not confirmedResearch releaseDownloadable - Lelapa-X-ASR African French
Lelapa AI · Lelapa-X-ASR
A proprietary speech model fine-tuned for African-accented French using government-domain data.
Launch date not confirmedPreviewAPI · Provider product - Lelapa-X-ASR Afrikaans
Lelapa AI · Lelapa-X-ASR
A proprietary Afrikaans transcription model for call-center speech, currently offered in beta.
Launch date not confirmedPreviewAPI · Provider product - Lelapa-X-ASR isiZulu and Sesotho
Lelapa AI · Lelapa-X-ASR
A proprietary speech recognition model for isiZulu and Sesotho call-center recordings.
Launch date not confirmedAPI · Provider product - Lelapa-X-ASR South African English
Lelapa AI · Lelapa-X-ASR
A proprietary speech model for transcribing South African English call-center recordings.
Launch date not confirmedAPI · Provider product - Lelapa-X-Glot
Lelapa AI · Lelapa-X-Glot
A proprietary African-language translation model used by Vulavula Translate.
Launch date not confirmedAPI · Provider product