4M+
people speak Lao
Lao is the official language of Laos and, under the name Isan, is natively spoken by 13 to 16 million people in northeastern Thailand. That makes the Lao-speaking market far larger across the Mekong than inside Laos itself.
Real-time and async Lao 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.
4M+
Lao is the official language of Laos and, under the name Isan, is natively spoken by 13 to 16 million people in northeastern Thailand. That makes the Lao-speaking market far larger across the Mekong than inside Laos itself.
Supporting Lao lets you serve customers in Vientiane and across Laos, and reach Isan speakers in northeastern Thailand along with Lao workers employed across Thailand.
People rarely stick to one language. Gladia follows Lao speakers when they switch mid-sentence, so your transcripts stay clean.
Code-switchingUse cases
Whatever you're building, Lao shouldn't be the thing that slows it down.
Capture every Lao meeting, without anyone scrambling to take notes. Accurate transcripts, speaker labels, and timestamps.
Meeting assistants →Turn every Lao support call into searchable, analyzable data for QA, compliance, and agent coaching.
CCaaS →Lao and Isan speakers mix in Thai words picked up from school and media, so voice agents need to follow both.
Voice agents →Make Lao podcasts, videos, and broadcasts searchable and subtitled, and reach audiences in other languages through translation.
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 Lao voice features with an API built for messy, real-world conversations.
