Autrans

Most global transcription tools struggle with African accents and dialects. That’s exactly what we're solving. ​AuTrans gives creators & businesses accurate speech-to-text tools that actually understand us. ​Try it out: autrans.online 🌍

@JustLaunchedFYI We are building AuTrans (@AutransAi), a localized AI language infrastructure that understands authentic African conversational flows, regional phrasing, and speech cadences. We just crossed 70+ users this month! Check us out at autrans.online

Founders/builders: what are you working on? Drop your product, a 1-line pitch, and the link in the replies — genuinely curious what this corner of the timeline is building. We’ll read through and reply. Bonus: connect with each other too. #founders #startups

Wow, over 11k views on this thread. We are so incredibly grateful for the overwhelming support and every single follow. Thank you for believing in the vision for AuTrans. We are just getting started!

The momentum is absolutely unreal. We are officially at 73 users and closing in fast on our first major milestone of 100. Big upgrades are on the horizon. Thank you to everyone onboarding and building this with us!

We built AuTrans to change this. We never train on your audio, keep zero voiceprints, and actually understand how you talk. ​People are already backing this mission, and we officially secured our first sale today! 🚀 ​Read yesterday's newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/pidgininth…

A freelance reporter in Nigeria, Oge, told me she doesn’t even bother uploading Pidgin interviews to standard transcription tools. She knows they’ll fail, so she types them by hand. ​The industry learned how to record before it learned how to listen.

While big tech fights multi-million dollar lawsuits in US courtrooms for "hearing too much" and taking unauthorized voiceprints, everyday African creators and professionals deal with the exact opposite issue. ​They are being completely ignored. 👇

@montakaoh Frustrating when big platforms change features overnight. If you still need that .mp3 processed, give AuTrans a try! We built it specifically to handle audio transcriptions reliably without the random errors.

gemini web app no longer handling transcriptions (also tried using .mp3 file). sad day, looks like they started cost cutting measures

@ANoffsinger @aquavoice The struggle is real, Adam. Most generic models break the second they hit complex audio context. We got so tired of the manual cleanup that we built AuTrans to handle actual conversational reality. Check us out, would love to hear what you think!

Feels like @aquavoice is getting slow, err'ing out way more than I would like. What's the most reliable transcription tool ya'll are using nowadays? I need like a .0000001% failure rate

@shanevanderhart @RepAshleyHinson It’s wild how the biggest transcription tools still consistently trip over basic audio context. This exact frustration is why we’re building AuTrans, to handle actual conversational reality instead of rigid textbook models. The manual cleanup is always a nightmare!

This is what we'd call a transcription failure. I uploaded an audio file of the press call I was on with @RepAshleyHinson, and this is how Otter transcribed my question. 😂 I asked her about the #SCOTUS leak. shame. shame. Shame. Otter.

Audio in. Transcript out. The way you actually talk. No more sitting down dey type your own recordings by hand. Pidgin, Naija English and code-switching, we sabi am. ₦200 per file, or forward a WhatsApp voice note to begin. autrans.online

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AuTrans does it in 1 to 3 minutes. Pidgin, Yoruba, Naija English, the way you really talk. We sabi am. autrans.online

You record 45 minutes of gist. Half of it na Pidgin. You upload to one transcription tool, e give you complete rubbish. So you sit down dey type am yourself. 3 hours gone.

AuTrans is still optimized for the African voice, seamlessly tracking English, Pidgin, and mid-sentence code-switching. ​Your audio is secure and never used to train AI. ​Try the free tools: autrans.online/tools

Transcribe WhatsApp voice notes by forwarding them (Android) ​7 free audio tools with no signup (cut, convert, compress, join, record) ​Pay per file from ₦200, no subscription ​Files process in minutes and do not break if you close the tab

AuTrans is back, and it is better than before. ​I spent the downtime rebuilding the platform from scratch to make it faster, sturdier, and more capable. ​Here is what is new:

@Meph0x @TonyDoeMedia Code-switching is our playground! While traditional ASR collapses when speakers mix languages mid-sentence, AuTrans is natively optimized for the African voice. It catches the shift dynamically, ensuring the transcript stays smooth, accurate, and completely context-aware.

@TonyDoeMedia transcription that actually handles pidgin and local languages is the hard part — most ASR collapses on code-switching. how are you handling speakers who mix languages mid-sentence?

Podcasting was sold as the end of gatekeeping, but then "economics" showed up. Why are African creators still fighting for a seat at the Silicon Valley table? We dive into the "stubborn uncle" of media economics and how the continent is building ecosystem resilience.

Catch up on the full breakdown and see what we have been shipping behind the scenes here: ​open.substack.com/pub/pidgininth…

Issue 2 of the Pidgin in the Wild newsletter is officially live! ​This week, I am breaking down our latest product updates, including the new WhatsApp voice note integration and how we are expanding our language coverage.