Speech to text
Turn African speech into accurate, useful text.
Kampala, Uganda
Voice infrastructure for Africa.
Waseme is building the APIs and products that help technology understand, translate, and generate speech in African languages.
Android closed beta
Waseme Studio
Publish-ready captions, without moving your original video to the cloud.
What we believe
Every voice deserves to travel further.
Africa’s languages and ways of speaking should work naturally across the technology people use to create, communicate, and build.
What we’re building toward
Speech technology that works across Africa’s languages.
Programmable speech and language capabilities, made available through APIs and focused products.
Language translation
Carry meaning across languages and wider audiences.
Text to speech
Enable natural voice experiences in African languages.
Developer APIs
Bring these capabilities into products and services.
These capabilities are our direction. Waseme Studio is the first product available for closed testing today.
Our first product · Waseme Studio
From spoken story to share-ready video.
Generate timed captions, correct every word, translate captions to English, and export a finished video from Android.
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