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Running a business means keeping track of orders, quantities and prices all at once. When every detail lives in your head, even a simple customer order can become a mental calculation.
With voice AI, you can simply speak the order and let Sahara capture the details, calculate the total and keep the workflow moving.
Less mental math. More time for the customer.
Powered by Sahara v2.5: intron.io
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Africa speaks in many languages, accents and expressions, and voice AI should be built to understand that naturally.
At Intron, we’re building voice AI around the way Africans communicate every day, so people can speak naturally and be understood.
Sahara v2.5 is built for African language mixing, code-switching and the richness of African speech.
Learn more: intron.io
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A patient describes their symptoms clearly, and every detail matters.
In healthcare, voice AI needs to capture what patients say accurately, from symptoms and timelines to the details clinicians need for the next step.
Sahara v2.5 helps healthcare teams turn spoken conversations into accurate, usable information while understanding African accents and natural speech patterns.
Speak naturally, sahara understands.
Experience Sahara v2.5: intron.io
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12 Bilingual Models; built for How Africa Actually Speaks.
Africa speaks across languages every day, and those conversations carry context, culture and meaning.
Sahara v2.5 supports 12 bilingual models across African language pairs, including Hausa–English, Igbo–English, Yoruba–English, Swahili–English, Zulu–English and Kinyarwanda–English–French.
From customer conversations to healthcare, finance and everyday voice interactions, Sahara is built to follow language as people naturally use it.
12 language combinations. One voice AI built for Africa.
Try Sahara v2.5 today: intron.io
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Voice AI for African Language Mixing Is Here.
Across Africa, conversations move naturally between languages, sometimes two, sometimes three. Sahara v2.5 is built to follow those switches in real time, keeping context as people move between languages.
With 12 bilingual language models and Africa’s first trilingual ASR model for Kinyarwanda, English and French, Sahara v2.5 brings language mixing directly into voice AI.
It also delivers code-switching TTS across 13 languages, with 63 languages supported overall, giving teams the tools to build voice experiences around how people actually communicate.
From healthcare and fintech to customer experience, education and agriculture, Sahara v2.5 is built for real African conversations.
Speak naturally. Sahara understands.
Experience Sahara v2.5: intron.io
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A customer calls about a transfer that hasn’t reflected, and the conversation quickly becomes a record of what happened.
For financial institutions, capturing these conversations accurately matters. Names, transaction details, customer concerns and agent responses all contribute to the quality of the record and the next action taken.
Sahara helps teams turn these conversations into accurate transcripts while understanding the accents, language patterns and natural ways Africans communicate.
Whether a customer speaks in English, mixes languages, or uses a familiar local expression, Sahara is built to follow the conversation and capture the details that matter.
Speak naturally. Sahara understands.
Experience Sahara v2.5: intron.io
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Some conversations carry more weight than others.
A medical consultation, a legal testimony, or a sensitive patient conversation can involve language shifts, accents, and details that matter.
Sahara v2.5 is built to understand these conversations with the context they require, helping organisations capture spoken information more accurately across high-stakes workflows.
When every detail matters, every voice should be understood.
Try Sahara v2.5: intron.io
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Speak naturally. Sahara understands.
From sending money to everyday tasks, voice AI should understand the way Africans naturally communicate.
Sahara v2.5 is built for language mixing, accents and conversations that move naturally between languages.
Just speak. Sahara keeps up.
Try Sahara v2.5: intron.io
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Code-switching is part of everyday communication across Africa.
A conversation can move from English to Swahili, Xhosa, Yoruba and back again, naturally and effortlessly.
Sahara v2.5 is built to understand these language shifts as they happen, helping voice AI keep up with how people actually communicate.
The way you speak is the way AI should understand you.
Experience Sahara v2.5: intron.io
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Different conversations. Different contexts. Same voice AI.
From everyday requests to sensitive healthcare conversations and financial support, people communicate naturally, with their own accents, expressions and ways of speaking.
Sahara v2.5 is built to understand those conversations as they happen, helping voice applications capture the details that matter.
African voices, understood in context.
Try Sahara v2.5 today: intron.io
#SaharaV25 #VoiceAI #AfricanAI #SpeechRecognition #CodeSwitching
Intron Voice AI retweeted
AI built for how Africa actually speaks |
If you’ve ever sat in a clinic in Nairobi, a court in Nigeria, or a call center in Johannesburg, you know the rhythm of natural African conversation: a sentence starts in English, shifts into Yoruba or Swahili, and glides back without skipping a beat.
Most global Voice AI models treat this code-switching as an error.
@IntronHealth just set a new standard with the release of Sahara v2.5.
Here’s why this is a major milestone for African language technology:
✨ Code-Switching at Scale: Supports seamless switching between English and local languages across 12 African languages, including Zulu, Hausa, Swahili, and Luganda.
✨ First Trilingual Model: Introduces a groundbreaking trilingual model capable of processing Kinyarwanda, English, and French in a single conversation.
✨ Real-World Impact: Already accelerating workflows from state judiciary courtrooms in Nigeria to medical clinical notes in Kenya.
✨ Streaming & Offline Capabilities: Built for real-time voice bots and deployment on edge hardware to address local connectivity and data sovereignty needs.
By training on real-world conversations rather than clean studio audio, Intron is bridging the gap where standard tools often fail.
Read more about the launch on Techeconomy: techeconomy.ng/intron-unveil…
#VoiceAI #AIinAfrica #ArtificialIntelligence #TechNews #Innovation #LanguageTech #AfricanTech #IntronAI
Intron Voice AI retweeted
AI is learning to understand how Africans actually speak.
@IntronHealth Sahara v2.5 now supports 31 African languages and code-switching across languages like English, Yoruba, Hausa and Swahili.
It also recorded 36% fewer errors than Gemini in its benchmarks.
technext24.com/news/intron-s…
NVIDIA Nemotron ASR Masterclass.
State-of-the-art speech recognition, straight from the teams building it.
Join NVIDIA, Microsoft Research, and Intron for a deep dive into automatic speech recognition (ASR), featuring:
- Fatima Tambajang — NVIDIA
- Mercy Muchai — Microsoft Research
- Tobi Olatunji MD — Intron
Friday, Aug 28 | 3pm WAT
Register on Zoom via: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
Whether you're building voice AI, researching speech tech, or just curious about where ASR is headed; this one's for you.
See you there!
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Sahara v2.5 is here.
Voice AI is entering a new chapter for African language mixing.
From bilingual conversations across 12 African language pairs to the world’s first trilingual African ASR model for Kinyarwanda, English and French, Sahara v2.5 is built to follow how people naturally communicate.
With 63 languages supported and code-switching across speech recognition and text-to-speech, this release brings African language mixing to the centre of voice AI.
Language mixing is here. Sahara v2.5 is live.
Try it today: intron.io
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Today, Sahara v2.5 is live.
This is a major step forward for African Voice AI, built around one simple reality: Africans rarely speak one language at a time.
Sahara v2.5 adds 7 new African languages, bringing total language support to 63, with bilingual models across 12 African language pairs and the world’s first trilingual African ASR model for Kinyarwanda, English, and French.
It also brings code-switching TTS across 13 languages, giving voice applications a more natural way to handle the languages people use in everyday conversations.
A user can start in English, switch to Yoruba to express a thought more naturally, return to English, and switch again. The same happens across Swahili, Zulu, Amharic, Hausa, Luganda, Wolof, and many other languages.
Sahara v2.5 is built to follow those switches while preserving context, helping voice applications maintain the information needed for accurate downstream tasks.
The benchmarks are equally significant, with Sahara v2.5 outperforming Gemini, Meta OmniASR, ElevenLabs, and GPT-Realtime by 20+ points on code-switching ASR and TTS.
From fintech and healthcare to education and agriculture, this opens the door to voice applications that work with the way Africans actually communicate.
63 languages. 12 bilingual language pairs. 13 code-switching TTS languages. 1 trilingual breakthrough.
Sahara v2.5 is live.
Try it today or book a demo: intron.io
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Africa speaks in many languages, often within the same conversation.
Voice AI is evolving to match that reality.
The Sahara Code-Switch Africa Challenge is now open
→ $10,000 prize pool
→ Build on Sahara v2.5 across 12 African language pairs
→ Five impact tracks
Launching at Deep Learning Indaba with the MLC (Africa) × Intron Voice AI Hackathon
→ 3-day sprint | $2,000 prize
Also included:
→ NVIDIA Nemotron Masterclass
→ Early API access & benchmarking tools
→ Partner Demo Day
Supported by leading ecosystem partners across AI, research, and industry.
Build, Learn, Compete.
Join the builders defining this space: intron.io/compete.
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97 teams. 19 countries. One pervasive problem: voice AI that breaks when Africans mix languages.
At #DeepLearningIndaba, developers are building and benchmarking real code-switching applications across health, fintech, contact centres and more.
Via @TechCabal:
techcabal.com/2026/08/04/97-…
Intron Voice AI retweeted
97 teams at the Deep Learning Indaba take on Africa’s language-mixing problem
Read more: techcabal.com/2026/08/04/97-…
What if your call center never slept?
Customer interactions continue beyond working hours, and without coverage, those conversations are lost.
With Sahara, calls continue 24/7 in the languages your customers understand, ensuring consistent engagement and better conversion outcomes.
Book a demo: intron.io/book-a-demo/
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