The Somali Voice Infrastructure Gap // AIDRAN

Somali is not an obscure language. It has approximately 25 million speakers, a standardized orthography using Latin script, and a diaspora that spans multiple countries with significant digital infrastructure access ^[13]. What it does not have is a market size that justifies the engineering investment a commercial TTS lab requires before adding a new language. The developer who posted this week was not discovering an oversight — they were documenting a deliberate absence.

The Somali Voice Problem and the Infrastructure No One Will Build

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