🇪🇹 lab.et — The AI Lab of Ethiopia

Who we are

lab.et is an artificial intelligence lab based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Amharic is spoken by over 50 million people — yet it remains one of the world's most under-resourced languages in AI. We exist to change that.

We collect our own datasets. We train our own models. We run our own infrastructure. No rented intelligence, no foreign data flows — Ethiopian AI, built in Ethiopia.

What we build

🎙️ voice.et — Speech AI

Automatic speech recognition and natural text-to-speech for Amharic, Afaan Oromoo, Tigrinya, Sidamo and Wolaytta — in production, serving real users through APIs and live voice products.

✨ yakal.et — The AI Console

Chat, images, video, voice and an AI site builder — in Amharic, Afaan Oromoo and English, prepaid in Birr via Telebirr. Built for Ethiopian creators, developers and businesses.

🏢 Enterprise & Research

Custom speech models tuned to your domain, on-premise and sovereign deployments that keep Ethiopian data inside Ethiopia, and ethically-sourced language corpora for research institutions.

📦 Open releases

By the numbers

• 🗣️ 5 languages supported in production ASR
• 📼 ~193k speech utterances in our training corpora
• 🔬 In-house model training, evaluation and research pipelines
• 🏭 Production-proven — live products serving real users since 2025

Work with us

Building for the Ethiopian market? Banks, telcos, government services, NGOs — reach us:

• 🌐 lab.et
• ✉️ admin@lab.et

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