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Practical solutions for real-world needs

Choose what you need to build, from raw language data to a fully custom solution for your industry.

Engagement models

Ways to work with us

Every project is scoped around your actual data and language needs. These are starting points, not fixed prices.

General

General language solution

Not tied to one industry. A flexible starting point for most projects.

• Conversational speech collection
• Standard transcription and annotation
• ASR, TTS or translation model options
• Flexible language and dialect coverage
Starter
Starting at a scoped quote
Small, well-defined datasets
  • Up to 20 hours of speech or an equivalent text volume
  • One language and variety
  • Standard transcription and annotation
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Production
Custom quote
The most common engagement size
  • 50 to 500+ hours, one or more languages
  • Dialect and variety tagging built in
  • Domain-specific collection (health, finance, education and more)
  • Ongoing QA and a named project contact
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Enterprise
Custom quote
For large-scale or ongoing programmes
  • Multi-language, multi-phase data programmes
  • Dedicated contributor recruitment
  • Model fine-tuning and evaluation included
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Need a specific volume, like 100 hours of isiZulu customer-service speech? We can scope that directly.

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What we build with

The building blocks

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Data collection

Speech, text, image and video data, collected and annotated by real speakers.

Conversational speechDomain-specific speechText datasetsTranscription & annotationTranslation pairsCustom collection
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Language models

Pre-trained and fine-tuned models for African languages.

Speech recognition (ASR)Text-to-speech (TTS)TranslationLanguage identificationFine-tuning on your dataEvaluation & benchmarking
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APIs & tools

Integrate African language capabilities directly into your product.

Transcription APITranslation APIText-to-speech APIBatch processingDocumentation & SDKsUsage-based pricing
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Custom solutions

Tailored language technology for your industry, end to end.

Needs assessmentCustom data collectionModel fine-tuningIntegration supportOngoing consultingDedicated support
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Foundational

ALPIA: African Languages Pronunciation & Intonation Archive

A structured speech archive documenting how African languages are actually spoken: pronunciation, intonation, prosody and speaker variation. The foundation the rest of our solutions are built on.

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