LinguaLibre Alpha release was announced on August 2018. By April 2019, LiLi reached 100,000 audios in 46 languages thanks to 128 different speakers. The project reached 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.