{"slug": "introducing-murya-ai", "title": "Introducing Murya AI", "summary": "A developer has released Murya, an MIT-licensed text-to-speech project for Hausa, one of Africa's most widely spoken languages. The project, which surpassed 10,000 page views in its first month, aims to address the underrepresentation of low-resource languages in AI. The developer argues that the 'low-resource' label is socially constructed and hopes to inspire similar efforts.", "body_md": "Dear DEV Community,\n\nIt feels great to be here, and thank you for the opportunity to be a part of this platform!\n\nThis is my first post, and I am thrilled to share a recent project that kept me working late into the night. It is codenamed [Murya](https://murya.ng), which literally means \"Voice\" in Hausa, one of Africa's most widely spoken languages, with over 95 million speakers worldwide.\n\nTo my knowledge, Murya (`https://app.murya.ng`\n\n) is the first publicly available, MIT-licensed text-to-speech (TTS) project created by a native Hausa speaker. Mainstream media and major tech corporations often treat Hausa and hundreds of other languages from the Global South as \"low resource.\" However, I strongly believe this framing is not entirely accurate; rather, it is socially constructed.\n\nLeading scholars and institutions have extensively explored the very problem Murya aims to solve, including:\n\nThe takeaway is simple: if there is a will to address these gaps, there is a way—or rather, many ways—to make it happen.\n\nRecently, Murya surpassed 10,000 page views in its first month, according to Cloudflare analytics. I also wrote about the release on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adamudanjuma_speechai-nlp-lowresourcelanguages-activity-7491001204521553920-y9IW).\n\nPlease feel free to ask questions, contribute, or learn more about Murya over on [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/adab-tech/murya-piper-hausa-tts).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/introducing-murya-ai", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/adabtech/introducing-murya-ai-5429", "published_at": "2026-08-15 01:08:17+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-15 01:41:01.269729+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "natural-language-processing", "ai-products", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Murya", "Hausa", "Hugging Face", "Cloudflare", "Adamu Danjuma"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/introducing-murya-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/introducing-murya-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/introducing-murya-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/introducing-murya-ai.jsonld"}}