The most comprehensive African-language coverage of any platform — machine translation, speech-to-text and natural text-to-speech across more African languages than global providers touch. Delivered as an API, a workspace, or a white-label platform under your own brand.
The most comprehensive African-language coverage of any platform.
Translation, speech-to-text and natural text-to-speech across more African languages than any global provider offers — including pairs and voices nobody else ships. Activated per capability and per client.
Text, documents, speech and search — built on models we can fine-tune per language and per client, so quality compounds instead of stagnating.
Production machine translation to and from African languages, including pairs no global API offers. Batch-friendly, cache-smart, billed per character.
Send Word documents, receive translated documents in every target language at once — structure, tables, headers and footers preserved.
Upload your approved term base and every translation respects it, with per-job enforcement metrics. Built for education, legal, health and technical content.
Speech-to-text across 38 African languages — isiZulu, isiXhosa, Chichewa, Kiswahili, Xitsonga, Yoruba, Hausa, Amharic and more — plus 100+ world languages. Batch files or realtime streams for meetings, broadcasts and conferences — and it follows code-switched speech (e.g. a Kiswahili talk that slips into English) that single-language engines garble.
Turn one recording into many languages — as translated subtitles, a natural voice-over, or the original speaker's own voice. Review and correct the transcript before you commit, then export a ready-to-post dubbed video, timed to the original — with optional lip-sync that moves the speaker's mouth to match the new language.
Search hours of audio and video for specific spoken words and phrases — indexing archives in languages conventional search engines can't hear.
Your language missing or underserved? We build and fine-tune models from your corpora and reviewer feedback — quality nobody else can buy off a shelf.
The entire platform — workspace, API, billing — under your brand and domain, with dedicated capacity and SLAs for language service providers.
Language is infrastructure. These are the places our clients put it to use.
No hand-waving — here is exactly what translates, transcribes and speaks today. Global APIs give African languages a handful of entries; we cover them across all three. A selection of the catalogue:
| Language | Translation | Speech‑to‑text | Text‑to‑speech |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Africa & the Horn | |||
| Kiswahili | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Amharic አማርኛ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Afaan Oromoo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Soomaali Somali | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kinyarwanda | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gĩkũyũ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Luganda | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| West Africa | |||
| Yorùbá | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hausa | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Igbo Ìgbò | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Wolof | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Bambara | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Éwé Eʋegbe | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Twi Akan | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Southern Africa | |||
| isiZulu | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| isiXhosa | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Afrikaans | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| chiShona | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Chichewa Chicheŵa | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Xitsonga | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Central Africa & the Indian Ocean | |||
| Lingála | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Malagasy | ✓ | ✓ | — |
This is a selection. The full catalogue spans 213 languages for translation, 149 for speech-to-text and 106 with natural voices — plus English, French, Portuguese, Arabic and Mandarin — activated per client and per capability. Missing yours? We build for languages nobody else will.
Buy credits once, spend them across translation, documents and speech from a single balance, and watch every movement in your ledger. When credits run out, service pauses — it never bills you behind your back.
# Translate into isiZulu — one call curl -X POST https://abantu-ai.com/v1/translate \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"texts": ["Welcome"], "source_lang": "en", "target_lang": "zu"}' # Transcribe Chichewa speech — now live curl -X POST https://abantu-ai.com/v1/transcribe \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -F "audio=@meeting.wav" -F "lang=ny"
Abantu AI applies modern machine learning to the languages spoken by hundreds of millions of Africans and served by almost nobody. Where data is scarce, we build it — working with reviewers, institutions and our clients' own corrections to train models that improve every week.
We work with learning institutions across Africa to pass down these capabilities — because the future of African-language technology should be built on the continent, by people who speak the languages it serves.
Pilots, dedicated capacity, a language we should add — we reply within a business day.
