17M+
people speak Afrikaans
Afrikaans is one of South Africa's official languages and a widely used lingua franca in Namibia. It is spoken at home across the Western and Northern Cape, and it supports its own national TV, news, and music industries.
Real-time and async Afrikaans speech-to-text API that keeps up with how people actually talk. Handles regional accents, fast speech, and code-switching mid-sentence. Live in production in under a day.
17M+
Afrikaans is one of South Africa's official languages and a widely used lingua franca in Namibia. It is spoken at home across the Western and Northern Cape, and it supports its own national TV, news, and music industries.
Supporting Afrikaans lets you serve customers from Cape Town to Windhoek and reach diaspora communities in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, in the language many of them still use at home.
People rarely stick to one language. Gladia follows Afrikaans speakers when they switch mid-sentence, so your transcripts stay clean.
Code-switchingUse cases
Whatever you're building, Afrikaans shouldn't be the thing that slows it down.
South African offices often run meetings in Afrikaans and English at once, so notes have to follow speakers who swap languages mid-sentence.
Meeting assistants →Turn every Afrikaans support call into searchable, analyzable data for QA, compliance, and agent coaching.
CCaaS →Let Afrikaans speakers talk to your product the way they'd talk to a person, with no language menu and no awkward pauses.
Voice agents →kykNET is the most-watched channel on DStv Premium and Netwerk24 ranks second among South African news sites, so Afrikaans content needs captions that keep up.
Media →Supported languages
Being multilingual has been our priority since day one. Gladia supports 100 languages, with code-switching and automatic language detection integrated into all models by default.
Ship Afrikaans voice features with an API built for messy, real-world conversations.
