Awarri

Awarri builds speech and language AI for African languages, starting with Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and Pidgin. Its Awarri Studio platform generates speech, clones voices, translates audio and localises content. The company is also developing a voice-first multilingual AI assistant, described as launching soon with a beta sign-up, and N-ATLAS, an open-source multilingual, multimodal LLM developed with the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy.

Its data products include Langeasy, a platform that crowdsources local-language data, and RootLens, which supports visual data training and evaluation. Awarri also offers AI data services such as labelling, annotation, model training, reinforcement learning with human feedback and customised data platforms. Stated customers include creators, businesses and developers. Awarri additionally runs robotics and AI education for young people, including the Next Robotics Legends programme for students aged 11–16.

Awarri was founded in 2019, starting with robotics education in Nigeria, and is based in Lagos. The company reports that it trained and hired over 4200 data operators and engineers in 2025. It is currently hiring a Senior AI Engineer for remote work.

Product: Awarri Studio, an AI speech platform for voice generation, voice cloning, audio translation and localisation in Nigerian languages, plus Langeasy and RootLens data platforms.