Real-time and async Lingala 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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Lingala is a lingua franca across the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo, centered on Kinshasa and Brazzaville. It is also the language of the Congolese armed forces and of soukous music, heard across Africa.
Supporting Lingala lets you serve customers in Kinshasa and Brazzaville, two of Central Africa's largest cities, and reach the Congolese diaspora in Belgium and France in the language they grew up with.
People rarely stick to one language. Gladia follows Lingala speakers when they switch mid-sentence, so your transcripts stay clean.
Code-switchingUse cases
Whatever you're building, Lingala shouldn't be the thing that slows it down.
Capture every Lingala meeting, without anyone scrambling to take notes. Accurate transcripts, speaker labels, and timestamps.
Meeting assistants →Turn every Lingala support call into searchable, analyzable data for QA, compliance, and agent coaching.
CCaaS →Let Lingala speakers talk to your product the way they'd talk to a person, with no language menu and no awkward pauses.
Voice agents →Congolese rumba, sung largely in Lingala, joined UNESCO's heritage list in 2021, and its songs and interviews deserve searchable transcripts.
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 Lingala voice features with an API built for messy, real-world conversations.
