Azeez Ayanniyi
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A Nigerian mechanical engineering graduate and AI developer who created YarnGPT, a text-to-speech system for local languages.
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The $100 YarnGPT model that’s teaching AU to speak in Nigerian English
Bendada.com - Dec 02, 2025
Azeez Ayanniyi bombed a job interview at a Nigerian AI company focused on text-to-speech systems. He built YarnGPT to cater to Nigerian accents and languages, including Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and Pidgin.
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