Real-time and async Pashto 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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Pashto is an official language of Afghanistan and widely spoken in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces. It is less a mature commercial market than a large, underserved audience, from Kabul and Peshawar to Pashtun workers in the Gulf.
Supporting Pashto lets you reach Pashtun communities in Afghanistan, northwestern Pakistan, and the Gulf, and serve users who are rarely offered anything in their own language.
People rarely stick to one language. Gladia follows Pashto speakers when they switch mid-sentence, so your transcripts stay clean.
Code-switchingUse cases
Whatever you're building, Pashto shouldn't be the thing that slows it down.
Capture every Pashto meeting, without anyone scrambling to take notes. Accurate transcripts, speaker labels, and timestamps.
Meeting assistants →Turn every Pashto support call into searchable, analyzable data for QA, compliance, and agent coaching.
CCaaS →With adult literacy in Afghanistan around 37%, many Pashto speakers rely on voice instead of text, so spoken interfaces reach people apps miss.
Voice agents →BBC Pashto alone reaches millions of people each week, and Pashto radio, TV, and music archives need transcripts to be searchable.
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 Pashto voice features with an API built for messy, real-world conversations.
