Introduction
The comprehensive guide to the Addis AI developer platform.
The Engine for
Ethiopian Intelligence.
Addis AI provides the raw, unified infrastructure (LLMs, Vision, and Audio) designed to process Ethiopian languages as primary data. By using a native tokenization architecture, we eliminate the translation layer overhead that causes standard APIs to struggle with Ge'ez logic and local accents.
Why Addis AI?
Building AI for Ethiopia is different. Generic models from Silicon Valley treat our languages as an edge case. We treat them as the core product.
We solve the three hardest problems in Ethiopian NLP:
- Morphology: Amharic verbs fuse subject, object, and tense into single words. Our models parse this correctly where GPT-4 often hallucinates.
- Culture: Our models know the history of Adwa, the geography of Oromia, and the current legal frameworks of Ethiopia.
- Voice: We don't just do text. We built the most natural sounding TTS engines for Amharic and Afan Oromo.
The Core Engines
The platform is powered by three specialized model families. You will select these using the model parameter in your API calls.
Addis-፩-አሌፍ (NLP)
Our flagship Large Language Model. It is optimized for instruction following, reasoning, and content generation.
- Best for: Chatbots, RAG (Document Search), Summarization.
- Languages: Amharic, Afan Oromo, English.
- Context Window: 8k tokens.
አሌፍ-Audio (Voice)
A suite of high-fidelity audio models.
አሌፍ-Audio-AM: Amharic Text-to-Speech with natural intonation.አሌፍ-Audio-OM: Afan Oromo Text-to-Speech.addis-whisper: Speech-to-Text transcription that handles dialect variations.
Realtime Audio
Powered by አሌፍ-1.2-realtime-audio.
- Latency: <300ms response time.
- Use Case: Live conversational agents (like Siri/Alexa) that need to interrupt and respond instantly.
Documentation Roadmap
We have structured the docs to get you into production fast.
🚀 Get Started
- Playground Guide: Learn how to prompt the models visually.
- Quick Start: Get your API Key, choose a model, and make your first request (Auth & Code included).
⚡ Capabilities & API
Deep dives into the specific endpoints and parameters.
- Text Generation: Context management, parameters, and JSON schemas.
- Voice Intelligence: Handling audio binaries and
multipartuploads. - Vision: OCR and Image analysis.
⚙️ Platform
- Rate Limits: Understanding tiers and quotas.
- Errors: Troubleshooting status codes like
429and500.
Community & Support
We are building this together.