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INTRON FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES

Voice AI that helps African financial institutions

Intron gives banks, fintechs, lenders, insurers, and payment platforms an Africa-first voice AI platform for debt collection, customer support, onboarding, telemarketing, compliance, and voice banking.

500+ African accent variations
6 African markets
40+ Partners & enterprise customers
Intron Financial Voice AI
Ready for customer conversation
LIVE WORKFLOW
LANGUAGE English ⇄ Pidgin
INTENT Promise to pay
RISK Medium
NEXT BEST ACTION Confirm Friday repayment
LIVE CALL INTELLIGENCE READY
CUSTOMER

Select a workflow and play the demo.

INTRON

Ready to understand the customer and take the next action.

COLLECTIONS PROOF ₦1.2M+ recovered in delinquent loans in one week
Interactive browser demonstration. Synthetic sample voices are used. Connect Intron's production voice APIs for a real live AI workflow.
EXECUTIVE OUTCOMES

Built for the metrics
financial executives
already care about.

Voice AI designed around measurable financial outcomes — recovery, cost, conversion, compliance, access and trust.

01

Recover more delinquent loans

Automate repayment reminders, promise-to-pay capture, rescheduling, and escalation in local languages — including after hours and weekends.

02

Reduce contact-center cost

Auto-resolve routine inquiries, summarize calls, route complex issues, and reduce repetitive agent work.

03

Improve conversion and cross-sell

Use voice agents to qualify leads, educate customers, reactivate dormant users, and push next-best offers.

04

Increase compliance coverage

Move from small-sample QA to 100% call transcription, scoring, supervision, and compliance flagging.

05

Expand financial access

Let customers bank by speaking naturally through apps, web, IVR, ATMs, kiosks, WhatsApp, and call centers.

06

Strengthen trust and security

Use voice authentication and biometric verification for high-risk financial workflows.

THE PROBLEM

Financial services still use the wrong interface for Africa.

African customers already use voice every day, but banking still forces millions through English-first apps, rigid IVRs, long forms and overloaded call centers.

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ACCESS 01 / 05
DIGITAL EXCLUSION

Low-literacy and native-language customers are excluded from digital banking.

BUSINESS IMPACT Lower digital adoption
CONTINUE
English only
What if they could just speak?
02
SCALE 02 / 05
CONTACT-CENTER PRESSURE

Call centers cannot serve every customer 24/7 without expanding headcount.

BUSINESS IMPACT Higher operating cost
24 /7
CALL QUEUE +247 waiting
03
REACH 03 / 05
HUMAN CAPACITY

Collections, sales and onboarding teams cannot reach enough customers manually.

BUSINESS IMPACT Missed revenue
ONE TEAM Thousands of conversations
04
VISIBILITY 04 / 05
MANUAL QA

Manual QA reviews only a fraction of customer conversations.

BUSINESS IMPACT Compliance blind spots
CONVERSATION QA SAMPLE REVIEW
FRACTION reviewed
MAJORITY unseen
05
ACCURACY 05 / 05
GENERIC SPEECH AI

Generic global speech AI struggles with African accents, names, account numbers, currencies and noisy call-center audio.

BUSINESS IMPACT Failed automation
₦250,000 ADEBAYO PIDGIN 0803••••• MISHEARD
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One voice AI platform for customer engagement, support, compliance, and secure banking.

Sahara-v2.5 — the voice AI model that makes these bots work where others fail.

Voicebots

Automated inbound and outbound voice agents for collections, support, onboarding, telemarketing, reminders, customer education, and reactivation.

Best for: lenders, digital banks, BNPL, microfinance, insurers, payment platforms.

CX Intelligence

Transcribe, summarize, score, and analyze 100% of calls — not just samples. Detect compliance gaps, churn risk, fraud signals, poor verification, agent-performance issues, and revenue opportunities.

Best for: banks, BPOs, contact centers, fintech support teams, regulated institutions.

Sahara ASR + TTS

Africa-first speech recognition and speech generation built for accents, local languages, financial terms, names, numbers, currencies, IDs, dates, and code-switching.

Best for: any financial workflow where generic transcription fails.

Voice Banking

Let customers speak naturally to complete banking actions across apps, websites, IVRs, ATMs, kiosks, field-agent tools, and low-connectivity channels.

Best for: banks, mobile-money providers, agency banking, rural banking, merchant tools.

Voice Verify

Voice authentication and biometric security for onboarding, account recovery, high-risk transactions, and customer verification.

Best for: KYC, fraud reduction, high-volume call centers, payment authorization, account security.

Real outcomes, not AI theater.

See how Intron voice bots perform under pressure in institutional production.

REAL-WORLD RESULTS

Proof that moves with the business.

From collections recovery to contact-center visibility, Intron turns voice AI into measurable operating outcomes.

01 Collections
₦1.2M+
recovered in one week

Collections recovery

An Intron autonomous debt-collection agent recovered over ₦1.2M in delinquent loans in one week and delivered the highest number of weekend payments recorded by the lender.

Autonomous voice agentWeekend recovery
02 Performance
better recovery

Human-agent comparison

For delinquent loans over 365 days, Intron’s autonomous agent outperformed human agents by more than 4×.

03 Visibility
100%
contact-center coverage

Contact-center visibility

100% contact-center transcription and analysis, giving full visibility into compliance, churn, agent performance, and customer experience.

04 Enterprise
Enterprise
reach across African finance
BranchARMCarbonSycamoreRegxta Union BankStanbic IBTCSterlingInterswitchABSA

Enterprise reach

In use or in pipeline with leading financial institutions and technology partners across the continent.

05 Traction
40+
partners
6countries
$36KMRR
YoY revenue
MoM usage

Platform traction

40+ partners across 6 countries, with strong recurring revenue and usage growth.

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Built for Real Use, at Real Scale

From retail customer banking to global non-profit community outreach.

Recover more delinquent loans

Automate repayment reminders, promise-to-pay capture, rescheduling and escalation in local languages — including after hours and weekends.

↑ Recovery

Reduce contact-center cost

Auto-resolve routine enquiries, summarise calls, route complex issues to the right agent and reduce repetitive work across your team.

↓ Operating cost

Improve conversion and cross-sell

Qualify leads, educate customers, reactivate dormant users and surface next-best offers through conversations that already happen.

↑ Conversion

Increase compliance coverage

Move from small-sample QA to 100% call transcription, scoring, supervision and automated compliance flagging.

100% Call QA

Expand financial access

Let customers bank by speaking naturally across the channels they already use.

Apps Web IVR ATMs Kiosks WhatsApp Call Center
Voice-first banking

Strengthen trust and security

Apply voice authentication and biometric verification to your highest-risk financial workflows.

Secure every interaction

Outperforms Gemini-3, Meta ASR, Azure, Whisper, GPT-4 Audio, Deepgram, and ElevenLabs.

12+

African languages with native-quality speech

500+

Accent variations parsed flawlessly

99%

Financial Data Precision

₦1.2M

Recovered in one week autonomously

20%+

Stronger robustness in noisy environments

Debt Collection and Repayment Engagement

Recover more without adding more agents.

Intron voice agents reach borrowers consistently with localised, human-like repayment conversations. Automate reminders, promise-to-pay capture, rescheduling, escalation, and after-hours calling across English, Pidgin, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Swahili, and more, including customers who switch between two of them in the same call.

  • Higher repayment engagement
  • More after-hours and weekend reach
  • Lower cost per recovered loan
  • More consistent borrower follow-up
  • Better segmentation by intent, risk, and repayment status
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24/7 Inbound Support

Reduce wait time. Resolve routine issues automatically.

Move from rigid IVR to intelligent voice self-service. Customers check balances, report failed transfers, block cards, request statements, ask repayment questions, and get app support. Complex cases escalate to your agents with the transcript, summary, and customer intent already attached.

  • Lower call-center pressure
  • Fewer repetitive tickets
  • Better first-contact resolution
  • Shorter wait times
  • Stronger customer experience after hours

Telemarketing and Revenue Growth

Turn customer conversations into revenue.

Voice agents qualify leads, explain products, follow up on abandoned applications, reactivate dormant customers, and route high-intent prospects to your team. Call summaries, sentiment, intent, and next-best actions flow back into your CRM.

  • Higher lead conversion
  • Better campaign follow-up
  • Faster customer education
  • Smarter cross-sell and upsell
  • More revenue from customer data you already have

KYC, Onboarding and Voice Autofill

Make onboarding easier for every customer.

Customers complete KYC, merchant forms, loan applications, and account opening by speaking instead of typing. Intron captures names, addresses, dates, IDs, income details, repayment preferences, and business information accurately, with structured outputs your downstream systems can use.

  • Higher onboarding completion
  • Lower form abandonment
  • Better access for low-literacy users
  • Faster merchant and borrower activation
  • More inclusive digital finance

Compliance, QA and Agent Assist

Analyse every call. Coach every agent. Catch risk earlier.

Every customer conversation becomes structured intelligence. Intron transcribes, summarises, scores, and analyses calls for compliance gaps, weak verification, fraud risk, churn signals, customer sentiment, and agent performance.

  • 100% QA coverage
  • Faster compliance review
  • Evidence-based agent coaching
  • Better fraud and churn detection
  • Cleaner audit trails

Voice Banking in Apps, Web, ATMs and Kiosks

Let customers bank by speaking naturally.

Voice commands for transfers, bill payments, statements, card blocks, loan applications, support, and merchant workflows. Deploy across mobile apps, web, IVRs, ATMs, kiosks, field-agent tools, and low-connectivity environments.

  • Better digital adoption
  • More inclusive banking UX
  • Faster transaction completion
  • Better rural and agency banking support
  • Stronger engagement across channels
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Capability
Intron Voicebots
Generic Global Voice AI
Generic Chatbot Tools
African accents
Built for 500+ accent variations
Limited coverage
Usually English-biased
Local languages
Built for African languages and code-switching across 12 languages
Uneven support
Partial support
Financial terms
Optimised for names, numbers, currencies, IDs, dates, and repayment language
General-purpose
Not specialised
Contact-center audio
Tuned for noisy, real-world calls
Often brittle
Usually text-first
Banking workflows
Collections, KYC, QA, support, voice banking, authentication
Requires heavy customisation
Narrow CX use cases
Deployment
API, cloud, telephony, CRM, partner integration, low-connectivity options
Often cloud only
SaaS-only
Compliance visibility
Every call transcribed, scored, and analysed
Not workflow-native
Limited analytics
Capability comparison
01 / 07

African accents

Intron Voicebots

Built for 500+ accent variations

Generic Global Voice AI

Limited coverage

Generic Chatbot Tools

Usually English-biased

02 / 07

Local languages

Intron Voicebots

Built for African languages and code-switching across 12 languages

Generic Global Voice AI

Uneven support

Generic Chatbot Tools

Partial support

03 / 07

Financial terms

Intron Voicebots

Optimised for names, numbers, currencies, IDs, dates, and repayment language

Generic Global Voice AI

General-purpose

Generic Chatbot Tools

Not specialised

04 / 07

Contact-center audio

Intron Voicebots

Tuned for noisy, real-world calls

Generic Global Voice AI

Often brittle

Generic Chatbot Tools

Usually text-first

05 / 07

Banking workflows

Intron Voicebots

Collections, KYC, QA, support, voice banking, authentication

Generic Global Voice AI

Requires heavy customisation

Generic Chatbot Tools

Narrow CX use cases

06 / 07

Deployment

Intron Voicebots

API, cloud, telephony, CRM, partner integration, low-connectivity options

Generic Global Voice AI

Often cloud only

Generic Chatbot Tools

SaaS-only

07 / 07

Compliance visibility

Intron Voicebots

Every call transcribed, scored, and analysed

Generic Global Voice AI

Not workflow-native

Generic Chatbot Tools

Limited analytics

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Where global models struggle with African names, numbers, mixed languages, and real-world audio, Intron is purpose-built for the financial workflows where accuracy moves revenue, risk, and customer trust. On Pidgin, the difference is not a margin. Meta's Omnilingual ASR and Gemini-3.0-flash return no measurable output at all. Sahara transcribes it cleanly.

Deeper customer service, built for workflows

We map voice pipelines onto your business core without writing custom models.

Collections &
Repayment

Reminders, promise-to-pay, and rescheduling handled autonomously in the borrower’s language. Keep communication lines empathetic and scalable.

24/7 Customer
Support

Balance checks, simple transfers, and frequently asked account questions resolved end-to-end on high-volume standard telephone queues.

Voice agent active

Outbound Growth

Qualify inbound leads instantly, run activation campaigns, reactivate dormant signups, and route high-intent calls to human account managers.

72%
Sahara-v2.5 Voice Bots

Build your own voice bot on Sahara-v2.5

12 African languages, code-switching, native TTS, and noise-resilient ASR – all accessible via a unified simple API with low-latency endpoints.

Build with Sahara-v2.5
12 African Languages Code-Switching Native TTS Low Latency
Code-switching detected
Live transcription
Low-latency API
Sahara v2.5 LIGHT VERSION
Dashboard Analytics Users Settings

Real-Time Transcription Hub

Live
Speaker 1 (Yoruba)

Ọpọlọpọ eniyan tọ́ wá sí ọjà náà lónìí...

Detected: Yoruba
Speaker 2 (English)

Many people came to the market today to buy goods.

Detected: English
Speaker 3 (Hausa)

Mutane da yawa sun zo kasuwa yau...

Detected: Hausa
TESTIMONIALS

Built for Real-World Results

01

Using Intron AI models, we’ve seen significant improvement in transcription and summaries compared to models we previously explored. Their systems capture context and nuance better, leading to more accurate results.

Ayo Oluleye Head of Data & Insights, ARM Investments
02

Intron helps us scale borrower engagement beyond human calling while preserving local language and conversational nuance.

Ayo Oluleye Head of Data & Insights, ARM Investments

Trusted by institutions building African financial infrastructure.

Secure enterprise deployment with full auditability and workflow control. Where regulation demands it, Sahara runs fully offline.

40+

partners across 6 countries

$36K

Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR)

YoY revenue growth

month-over-month usage growth

Ready to make your customer operations voice-first?

From collections to compliance, Intron turns voice into board-ready results.

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The next generation of Voice AI by Intron, specifically engineered for Africa’s linguistic diversity.

The Future of African Voice AI

Gain deep insights into the evolving technological landscape with our upcoming 2026 Africa Voice AI Report. The report explores the trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the future of speech interfaces across the continent.

© 2026 Sahara AI by Intron. Built for the future of Voice.

The Future of African Voice AI

Gain deep insights into the evolving technological landscape with our upcoming 2026 Africa Voice AI Report. The report explores the trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the future of speech interfaces across the continent.