LinguaLibre Alpha was announced on August 2018. By April 2019, LiLi reached 100,000 audios recordings in 46 languages thanks to 128 different speakers ; 200,000 recordings (82 languages, 268 speakers) in January 2020 ; 400,000 recordings (107 languages, 481 speakers) in February 2021 and 500,000 recordings (120 languages, 538 speakers) in June 2021.