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LoBAI and the API

For everyone: LoBAI, the conversational interface of Congo Digital Services, with five Maloba agents. For developers: an OpenAI-compatible API, with a key on request.

Download the weights from Hugging Face

Being commissioned

Model access point

The access point is being commissioned. This page describes the interface as it is defined. The weights of the public models can be downloaded from the Models page.

For everyone: LoBAI

Five agents, one per use. Each user selects the “External” dictation engine once in their settings, then can dictate in Lingala, photograph a page or translate a sentence.

Speech recognition

MALOBA Voix

Transcribe Lingala speech (radio, service desk, consultation).

Model sheet

Document reading (OCR)

MALOBA Documents

Read a photographed Lingala document, printed or handwritten.

Model sheet

French → Lingala translation

MALOBA Traduction

Translate an instruction, an administrative document, a message.

Model sheet

Gateway

MALOBA Passerelle

Routes each request to the right model: audio, image or text. The simplest entry point.

Three gestures

Dictate in Lingala: open MALOBA Voix, press the microphone, speak, then read the transcription back.
Photograph a page: open MALOBA Documents, attach the photo, ask “read this document”.
Translate a sentence: open MALOBA Traduction and write the sentence in French.

For developers: the API

An interface compatible with the OpenAI libraries. The address of the access point and the key are issued together, on request. Each model keeps its licence: NLLB-Maloba-h1 is non-commercial.

Available aliases
Alias	Use	Endpoint
maloba-asr	Transcribe Lingala audio (Whisper Small + QLoRA)	`/v1/audio/transcriptions`
maloba-ocr	Read a photographed document (Qwen2-VL 2B + QLoRA)	`/v1/chat/completions, avec image`
maloba-traduction	Translate French into Lingala (NLLB-Maloba-h1)	`/v1/chat/completions`
maloba-passerelle	Gateway: routes the request to the right model	`/v1/chat/completions`
maloba-passerelle-audio	Audio gateway: transcription then answer	`/v1/audio/transcriptions`

Example: translation

curl $MALOBA_API/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MALOBA_CLE" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "maloba-traduction",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Le centre de santé ouvre à huit heures."}]
  }'

Example: transcription

curl $MALOBA_API/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MALOBA_CLE" \
  -F model=maloba-asr \
  -F file=@emission.wav

The examples contain neither address nor key. Replace $MALOBA_API and $MALOBA_CLE with the values issued once your request is approved.

Request an access key

Manual review by the technical team. No key is sent automatically.