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Mbote! Olingi kobongola nini na makomi?

Lingala (Lingala)
Moderate accuracy
Language code
LN
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TurboProStudio
86.1%Studio accuracy*

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The free model can struggle with Lingala, while Studio, our most accurate model, is far sharper. For a clean Lingala transcript, Studio is the one to use.

Turbo and Pro30.7%Groq Whisper
Studio · most accurate86.1%ElevenLabs Scribe v2

* Accuracy on the FLEURS speech benchmark, where 100% means no word errors. It is the inverse of word error rate (WER).

Writing system

Lingala is written in the Latin alphabet, sometimes with tone marks and open-vowel letters (ɛ, ɔ). It is a Bantu language and a lingua franca of the Congo basin.

Dialects

Standard Lingala differs from the simpler spoken Lingala of Kinshasa; it is a tonal language, so pitch carries meaning.

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bio-101-lecture.mp31:12:04

00:00Alright everyone, let's pick up where we left off last week on cellular respiration.

00:11The mitochondrion is the site of cellular respiration, where most of the cell’s ATP is produced.

00:24Remember, ATP is the energy currency - basically every process in the cell pays for it.

00:37The inner membrane folds inward into structures we call cristae.

00:46Those folds dramatically increase the surface area available for the reactions.

00:58More surface area means more electron transport chains, and that means more ATP.

01:12There are three stages: glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation.

01:25Be able to tell glycolysis and the Krebs cycle apart - that is a common exam trap.

01:38We go deeper into the electron transport chain Thursday, so read chapter nine first.

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Thanks for joining. Let me start with a quick recap of where we left off, then we can take questions.

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