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
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.
How we deliver
Our delivery process
Every engagement follows the same rigorous four-stage approach — so you know exactly what to expect, and when.
- Step01
Acoustic environment audit
We record and profile your real audio conditions — phone codecs, ambient noise, code-switching frequency — before touching a model.
- Step02
Domain fine-tuning
Whisper or NeMo base fine-tuned on your vocabulary: medical terms, product names, regulatory language.
- Step03
Integration & latency testing
We wire the model into your telephony stack and test end-to-end latency on real African network conditions.
- Step04
Monitoring & accent drift
Ongoing WER monitoring with automatic retraining triggers when new speaker demographics emerge.
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