TokataHQ
Digital Igbo inclusion

Nnọọ. Welcome.

Put Igbo on the technology roadmap.

TokataHQ connects the people building Igbo voice data with the technology companies that can use it.

We strengthen the path from language resource to real product — and advocate for Igbo across AI, voice assistants, and digital platforms.

Partner with us

Connecting Igbo language builders, institutions, volunteers, and technology companies.

A voice dataset review screen: an audio waveform above a transcript of three Igbo phrases — Nnọọ (Welcome), Asụsụ Igbo (Igbo language) and Daalụ (Thank you) — each marked as verified and ready to publish under an open licence.
Igbo speech, transcribed and verified — the kind of resource companies need before they can support a language.
What we do

Builders create Igbo language data. Technology companies can put it to work.

TokataHQ brings them together.

Supply

Support the builders

We collaborate with teams creating Igbo speech and language datasets, and help make their work visible, documented, licensed, and easier to adopt.

Bridge

Connect data to deployment

We help close the gap between people producing Igbo language resources and the companies capable of turning them into widely used products.

Demand

Advocate for adoption

We make the case for Igbo inclusion to the companies shaping AI, voice assistants, search, translation, and other digital tools.

Why Igbo

Why this matters

Millions of people speak Igbo, but the language remains absent from many of the digital tools becoming part of everyday life. Without deliberate adoption, Igbo speakers risk being excluded from the next generation of technology.

~31 million
People who speak Igbo

Estimated speakers of Igbo worldwide, across all varieties.

Relevance: the audience already exists at scale — this is not a niche request.

Ethnologue estimate, via Igbo language (accessed 2026)

19 points
AI performance gap

GPT-4o scored 85.1 on English tasks and averaged 66.0 across 14 African languages, Igbo among them.

Relevance: the shortfall is measured and repeatable, not a matter of impression.

AfroBench, Findings of ACL 2025

1,800 hours
Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba speech recorded

Labelled speech from more than 5,000 speakers, released for research use.

Relevance: usable data already exists. Adoption, not creation, is the bottleneck.

NaijaVoices, Interspeech 2025

Volunteer

Help move Igbo from data to daily use.

Volunteer your time, skills, knowledge, or connections. Together, we can help put Igbo into the products people use every day.

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