Real-time and async Shona 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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Shona is an official language of Zimbabwe and the most widely spoken language in the country, with speakers in neighboring Mozambique. Zimbabweans abroad send home around $1.5 billion in remittances a year, tying the market closely to its diaspora.
Supporting Shona lets you serve customers in Harare and across Zimbabwe and reach the large Zimbabwean diaspora in South Africa and the UK, where families stay connected through mobile money and calls home.
People rarely stick to one language. Gladia follows Shona speakers when they switch mid-sentence, so your transcripts stay clean.
Code-switchingUse cases
Whatever you're building, Shona shouldn't be the thing that slows it down.
Capture every Shona meeting, without anyone scrambling to take notes. Accurate transcripts, speaker labels, and timestamps.
Meeting assistants →EcoCash, Zimbabwe's leading mobile money platform, now serves diaspora users in the UK and South Africa, so Shona support calls come from three countries.
CCaaS →Shona speakers routinely mix English into everyday speech, especially for numbers and money, so voice agents need to follow both.
Voice agents →Make Shona 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 Shona voice features with an API built for messy, real-world conversations.
