shonglish-ai 0.0.1

Shonglish AI - African Code-Switching TTS with Emotional Intelligence

# Shonglish AI

**The Code-Switching Voice AI Platform for Africa**

Revolutionary TTS with emotional intelligence and cultural authenticity. Starting with Shonglish (Zimbabwe), expanding to 10+ African language pairs.

## Why Shonglish AI?

Western TTS systems fail at African code-switching. Google Translate can't handle "Eish, ndiri busy but ndichaita plan" - we can.

**What makes us different:**

- ✅ Emotional Intelligence: "Yoh!", "Eish!", cultural interjections with authentic prosody

- ✅ Code-Switching: Natural mid-sentence language mixing (not translation)

- ✅ Pan-African Methodology: Proven framework works for ANY African language pair

- ✅ Data Sovereignty: Local deployment for government/enterprise compliance

## Languages (Roadmap)

**Live:** Shonglish (Shona + English)

**Coming 2026:** Nigerian Pidgin, isiZulu-English, Swahili-English

**Planned:** 10+ African code-switching pairs by 2027

## Use Cases

- 📱 **Mobile**: Voice assistants for African telcos

- 🏦 **Enterprise**: Customer service for banks, government, healthcare

- 🎮 **Entertainment**: Authentic African character voices for games/films

- 🌍 **Platform**: API for developers building African voice applications

## Quick Start

from shonglish\_ai import ShonglishTTS



tts = ShonglishTTS(api\_key="your\_key")

audio = tts.generate(

    text="Eish, ndinosurudzika shamwari",

    emotion="empathetic",

    voice="taura-warm"

)

**Get API access:** https://shonglish.ai

## Research

Published research on African code-switching TTS and emotional intelligence in voice AI.

Papers: [Coming soon on arXiv]

## Powered By

First-of-its-kind Shonglish corpus with 1,500+ recordings capturing emotional interjections, street vernacular, and natural code-switching patterns.

**License:** MIT

**Website:** https://shonglish.ai

**Contact:** [e-mail]