Towards Model as a Library: Offline, Community-Sourced AI for Low-Resource African Languages

arXiv cs.AIOctober 1, 2026en

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arXiv:2609.38574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are frequently proposed as a route to AI-powered services for African communities, but they are least reliable exactly where the need is greatest: all African languages remain low-resource by any standard measure, and models trained on scraped, standardised text systematically misrepresent the dialectal and regional variation of how people actually speak. We introduce \textbf{Model as a Library (MaaL)}, a software architecture that packages small, community-enrolled speech models as versioned on-device dependencies, enabling offline structured data collection that cannot generatively hallucinate, for populations that curre

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