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👋 About Me

I'm a Machine Learning Engineer focused on building impactful AI solutions for low-resource African languages, specialising in:

  • Speech Technologies (ASR, TTS, STS)
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Geospatial & Computer Vision ML
  • Health, Agriculture & Climate ML

🎧 Currently building Shona & Twi Speech-to-Speech models
🤝 Collaborating with Duke Congo (CodeJoe)
📬 Email: nashaa182@gmail.com
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nyashadzaishe-masvongo-b67698254/

🚀 Featured Project

VoxAfrica — Shona Text-to-Speech (TTS)

High-quality, open-source dataset links for Bantu languages.

👉 Repo: https://github.com/SeViVI-Tese/voxAfrica

🏆 Competition Excellence (Zindi Africa)

Consistently Top 1–10%, across NLP, CV, forecasting, and health ML.

Competition Rank Medal Summary
Kenya Clinical Reasoning 3/387 🥇 NLP reasoning model
Barbados Plot Automation 8/154 — OCR + Geospatial CV
MPEG-G Microbiome 6/73 🥇 Deep learning on federated data
CGIAR Root Volume 15/245 🥇 CV underground scanning
IBM Hydropower 23/444 🥇 Climate & energy forecasting
Amini Soil 29/308 🥇 EO nutrient modelling
Côte d'Ivoire Agriculture 28/143 🥈 Crop pixel classification

🛠️ Technical Skills

Languages

ML Frameworks

Tools

Specialisations

  • Speech: TTS, ASR, STS
  • NLP: tokenisation, transformers, finetuning
  • CV & Geospatial ML
  • Bioinformatics & climate modelling

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💡 Fun Fact

I build AI for people and languages often overlooked by the global AI ecosystem.
Impact > hype.

📰 Latest AI & Tech Articles

Last updated: 2025-11-21 12:39 UTC

🔬 Latest AI Research

Dataset Distillation for Pre-Trained Self-Supervised Vision Models
The task of dataset distillation aims to find a small set of synthetic images such that training a model on them reproduces the performance of the same model trained on a much larger dataset of real s...

💻 Trending Tech

  1. FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter (⬆️ 58)
  2. Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI (⬆️ 169)
  3. It's hard to build an oscillator (⬆️ 77)

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  1. Childline-Kenya-Prediction Childline-Kenya-Prediction Public

    Simple XGBoost model using 5 calendar features (hour, day, week) achieving ~28 RMSE on Childline Kenya call prediction. No lag features, no recursive forecasting - proves calendar patterns can outp…

    Python 2

  2. SeViVI-Tese/voxAfrica SeViVI-Tese/voxAfrica Public

    An open repository of African speech and text resources — building bridges between languages, voices, and AI.

    2

  3. Zindi_SoilChallenge Zindi_SoilChallenge Public

    Jupyter Notebook 2

  4. Localised_Precipitation_Forecasting_in_Brazzaville_Using-A Localised_Precipitation_Forecasting_in_Brazzaville_Using-A Public

    Accurate precipitation forecasting is vital for urban planning, agriculture, water resource management, and disaster prevention. In Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, rainfall patte…

    Python 3