90M+
people speak Hausa
Hausa is the main language of northern Nigeria and southern Niger, and a trade language across much of West Africa. With Nigeria's young and fast-growing population, it's a voice market with plenty of room to grow.
Real-time and async Hausa 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.
90M+
Hausa is the main language of northern Nigeria and southern Niger, and a trade language across much of West Africa. With Nigeria's young and fast-growing population, it's a voice market with plenty of room to grow.
Supporting Hausa lets you serve customers across northern Nigeria and Niger, and reach Hausa-speaking traders and communities in Ghana, Cameroon, and Chad without relying on English or French.
People rarely stick to one language. Gladia follows Hausa speakers when they switch mid-sentence, so your transcripts stay clean.
Code-switchingUse cases
Whatever you're building, Hausa shouldn't be the thing that slows it down.
Capture every Hausa meeting, without anyone scrambling to take notes. Accurate transcripts, speaker labels, and timestamps.
Meeting assistants →Telecoms and banks serving northern Nigeria field support calls from customers who would rather speak Hausa than English.
CCaaS →Hausa is a tonal language with long and short vowels, so voice agents need to hear pitch and length to get words right.
Voice agents →Kano's Kannywood film industry and international services like BBC Hausa produce a steady stream of Hausa content that needs subtitles and search.
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 Hausa voice features with an API built for messy, real-world conversations.
