Voice AI Built for How Africa Speaks

Our next-generation intelligent voice model built from the ground up for Africa
Unlike Global systems retrofitted for the continent Sahara v-2 understands how Africa actually sounds

Built for African Speech

From the courtroom in Ogun to the Hospital in Nairobi and to the boardrooms in South Africa

Sahara v-2 is trained natively on African speech patterns that are not adapted as an afterthought. It captures the tone, code-switching, accent shifts, and context, reduces noise the way they happen in real life

Features

Discover the tools built for the way your enterprise speaks, operates, and scales across Africa.

Performance and Benchmarks

Sahara-v2  is redefining Speech AI for African Languages and Accents

Sahara-v2 consistently outperforms leading global speech models, including Gemini-3, Meta Omni-language ASR, Azure, Whisper, GPT-4 Audio, Deepgram, and ElevenLabs.

AfriVox Transcribe Benchmark Highlights:

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Higher accuracy on African names, locations, and organizations 

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Higher accuracy on numbers, IDs, decimals, and currency

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Better performance across healthcare, legal, finance, and call‑center audio

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Stronger robustness in noisy, real‑world environments  

Capabilities

Transcribe African Speech Flawlessly

Sahara-v2 is purpose-built for the linguistic realities of Africa. It captures local dialects and major African languages with high-fidelity transcription designed for production environments.

Understand Every Accent

Regional dialects, diverse English accents, seamless code-switching. Sahara-v2 processes conversations naturally and understands speakers the first time.

Recognize Local Entities

Accurately identifies African names, locations, and organizations, giving finance, healthcare, legal, and customer teams data they can act on with confidence.

Numbers You Can Trust

Captures decimals, currency, IDs, dates, and fractions with precision, ensuring numerical data is reliable from input to output.

Next-Gen Voice Bots

Deploy natural, localized voice experiences across seven languages. Automate at scale without losing authenticity.

Voice Autofill Made Simple

Turn live speech into clean, structured data in real time. Reduce manual entry, cut errors, and accelerate workflows.

Work Anywhere, Even Offline

Run fully offline for uninterrupted performance in remote, low-connectivity, or high-security environments.

Built for the Real World

Handles background noise, overlapping speakers, and long pauses without compromising accuracy.

Industry Impact

Sahara-v2 is proven across critical sectors, delivering powerful, high-precision voice AI that enterprises can trust.

  • Healthcare Innovation: Penda Health, Audere, Data.FI
  • Financial Services: ARM
  • Legal and Public Sector: Judiciary systems in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and Eswatini

The Evolution of Sahara-v2

Where It All Began

Africa speaks differently, and traditional voice AI could not keep up. Sahara v1 was built to understand African languages, dialects, and the subtle nuances of real conversations.

The Refinement 

Sahara v1.5 improved on the foundation, becoming faster, smarter, and more reliable while recognizing every accent, tonal pattern, and informal speech style across the continent.

The Leap

Sahara-v2 marks a new era in voice AI. It does more than transcribe words- it understands context, captures meaning, and transforms every conversation into actionable insights for enterprises.

Why Sahara-v2 Is Different

Most voice AI systems are built elsewhere then adapted for Africa.

Sahara v2 is built in Africa , for Africans . It understands:

Accent diversity

(700 accents and counting)

Tonal languages

Informal speech patterns

Cross-language switching

(worlds’ first bilingual ASR model built for local language)

Because Africa isn’t one voice. It’s many. And Sahara-v2 listens to all of them.

Safety

Trust and Responsibility by Design

As we build new technologies, we take our responsibility seriously, making safety and security a priority. Privacy and reliability are not just features – they are the foundation of everything we do.

Availability

For Developers

Build next-generation voice applications with Sahara-v2’s APIs, offline intelligence, and bilingual support.

For Enterprises

Deploy Sahara-v2 at scale across any organization. Turn every conversation into accurate, actionable data that powers smarter decisions and streamlined workflows.