Intron Voice AI
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The infrastructure layer for voice interactions across Africa, industry leading speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs at https://t.co/pWxcZk8xT6
Nigerian artificial intelligence startup, Intron, has expanded its speech recognition platform, Sahara, to support 57 languages, adding 24 new languages as the company accelerates efforts to build voice technology tailored to African speech patterns. The latest upgrade, Sahara v2, supports 23 African languages within the overall total and recognises more than 500 African accents, marking one of the most extensive speech recognition systems built specifically for the continent. Among the newly added languages are Hausa, Swahili, isiZulu, Yoruba, Kinyarwanda, Twi, Igbo, isiXhosa, African French, Amharic, Bemba, Luganda, Oromo, Pidgin, Shona, and Wolof. Founded in 2020 by Tobi Olatunji and Olakunle Asekun, the company said language selection was largely driven by enterprise demand and commercial use cases across sectors such as healthcare, legal services, financial services, and telecommunications. “We curated datasets of African voices, combining publicly available datasets with our in-house collection, and made them available so anyone can test global models on African speech,” Tobi Olatunji, founder and CEO of Intron, said. Quadri Adejumo of Techparley reports how Intron is expanding its Sahara AI platform to power speech recognition across African languages and accents. techparley.com/nigerian-start… #techtrends #instagood #fyi #trending #techparley
Intron, a Nigerian AI startup that provides speech-to-text and text-to-speech transcription tools for African languages, has expanded its speech recognition platform, Sahara, to support 57 languages, adding 24 new ones as it deepens its push into healthcare, legal, financial services, and telecom.
