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Voice & Speech AI

ASR, TTS and voice agents tuned for the region.

From 8 kHz phone audio in rural clinics to Sheng-heavy urban conversations, our voice stack is trained on the real acoustic conditions your users live in. We ship both self-hosted and managed deployments.

12%

WER on real ward recordings

3,400 hrs

Training audio corpus

<500 ms

Latency on mobile networks

4 dialects

Regional coverage

What we ship

Capabilities

Speech recognition and synthesis trained on real Tanzanian and Kenyan voices, dialects and call-quality audio — production-ready for IVR, clinics and field ops.

  • 01

    Swahili & Kiswahili-Sheng ASR

    Acoustic models trained on 3,400+ hours of real East African speech — ward recordings, call-centre audio, field devices. WER down to 12% on clinical audio.

  • 02

    Natural-sounding Swahili TTS voices

    Studio-quality synthesis in multiple regional voices and dialects, fine-tuned on 100+ hours per persona for IVR, accessibility and brand applications.

  • 03

    Voice agents over telephony & WhatsApp

    End-to-end voice bots wired to Asterisk, Twilio or Africa's Talking — with barge-in, turn-taking and sub-second response on real mobile networks.

  • 04

    Diarization for multi-speaker recordings

    Speaker separation for clinical consultations, legal proceedings and call-centre QA — with language-ID for code-switched audio.

Outcomes

  • Voice agents that work on real African phone networks
  • Accurate transcripts for clinics, courts and call centres
  • Natural Swahili voices for brand applications

Tech we use

WhisperNeMoCoquiAsteriskTwilio

In the field

  • 1

    Hospital ward transcription

    Muhimbili National Hospital — doctor-patient consultations transcribed in real time, structured into EMR fields.

  • 2

    Rural IVR for mobile money

    Voice-driven M-Pesa support in Swahili and Sukuma for users who cannot read SMS prompts.

  • 3

    Court reporting automation

    Verbatim Swahili transcription of proceedings, with speaker diarization and legal-term glossary.

Discuss your use case

How we deliver

Our delivery process

Every engagement follows the same rigorous four-stage approach — so you know exactly what to expect, and when.

  1. Step01

    Acoustic environment audit

    We record and profile your real audio conditions — phone codecs, ambient noise, code-switching frequency — before touching a model.

  2. Step02

    Domain fine-tuning

    Whisper or NeMo base fine-tuned on your vocabulary: medical terms, product names, regulatory language.

  3. Step03

    Integration & latency testing

    We wire the model into your telephony stack and test end-to-end latency on real African network conditions.

  4. Step04

    Monitoring & accent drift

    Ongoing WER monitoring with automatic retraining triggers when new speaker demographics emerge.

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Build voice & speech ai for your product

Tell us about your use case — we'll respond within one business day with a proposal scoped to your context.