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Kiswahili
Swahili voices and speech-to-text
Addis AI speaks and understands Swahili (Kiswahili). Turn Swahili text into natural speech with 7 voices, and turn Swahili audio into text with Addis Scribe, from uploaded files or live audio.
What you can use today
- Voices
- 7 voices
- Real-time voice
- Streaming and real-time API
- Addis Scribe
- Uploads and live audio
- Speaker labels
- Not yet
- Captions
- Word timestamps, SRT and VTT
- Language code
- sw
Swahili voices
Each preview is a clip generated by the voice.
RashidDefault
Clear, authoritative male voice
sw-rashid
Neema
Warm female narration voice
sw-neema
Hassan
Steady male reading voice
sw-hassan
Bakari
Deep male voice
sw-bakari
Amina
Natural, conversational female voice
sw-amina
Juma
Male voice with a suspenseful, storytelling delivery
sw-juma
Zainab
Natural, conversational female voice
sw-zainab
Questions about Swahili
- Does Addis AI have Swahili text-to-speech voices?
- Yes. 7 Swahili voices are available through the Addis AI API, and Rashid is the default voice. You can play a preview of each voice on this page.
- Can Addis Scribe transcribe Swahili?
- Yes. Addis Scribe turns Swahili speech into text from uploaded files and live audio (language code "sw"), with word timestamps and SRT or VTT captions. Speaker labels are not available for Swahili yet.
- Is real-time Swahili voice available?
- Yes. Swahili works with streaming text-to-speech and with the real-time voice API.