Real-time and async Amharic 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.
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Amharic is a working language of Ethiopia's federal government and a second language for millions who grow up speaking Oromo, Tigrinya, or another local language. With a population of around 135 million, Ethiopia is one of Africa's largest consumer markets.
Supporting Amharic lets you serve customers from Addis Ababa to Bahir Dar and reach the Ethiopian diaspora in Washington, DC, Atlanta, and Seattle, home to the largest Amharic-speaking communities in the United States.
People rarely stick to one language. Gladia follows Amharic speakers when they switch mid-sentence, so your transcripts stay clean.
Code-switchingUse cases
Whatever you're building, Amharic shouldn't be the thing that slows it down.
About half of Amharic speakers learned it as a second language, so meeting notes must handle Oromo, Tigrinya, and other accents in one room.
Meeting assistants →Ethio Telecom has 83 million subscribers and Telebirr 54 million users, so Amharic support calls arrive at volumes QA teams can't review by hand.
CCaaS →Amharic speakers often drop English words into calls for banking, tech, and numbers, so voice agents need to follow both without losing the thread.
Voice agents →From Addis Ababa broadcasters to Amharic newspapers in Washington, DC, Amharic media reaches audiences on two continents who want searchable, subtitled content.
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 Amharic voice features with an API built for messy, real-world conversations.
