50M+
people speak Yoruba
Yoruba is spoken across southwestern Nigeria, including Lagos and Ibadan, and in Benin and Togo. Lagos is Nigeria's commercial capital, and Yoruba is one of the country's major languages alongside Hausa and Igbo.
Real-time and async Yoruba 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.
50M+
Yoruba is spoken across southwestern Nigeria, including Lagos and Ibadan, and in Benin and Togo. Lagos is Nigeria's commercial capital, and Yoruba is one of the country's major languages alongside Hausa and Igbo.
Supporting Yoruba lets you serve customers across southwestern Nigeria and Benin, and reach Yoruba-speaking diaspora communities in the UK and the US, in the language many of them grew up speaking.
People rarely stick to one language. Gladia follows Yoruba speakers when they switch mid-sentence, so your transcripts stay clean.
Code-switchingUse cases
Whatever you're building, Yoruba shouldn't be the thing that slows it down.
Capture every Yoruba meeting, without anyone scrambling to take notes. Accurate transcripts, speaker labels, and timestamps.
Meeting assistants →Turn every Yoruba support call into searchable, analyzable data for QA, compliance, and agent coaching.
CCaaS →Yoruba is a tonal language, so words spelled the same can mean different things depending on pitch, and voice agents have to hear the difference.
Voice agents →Yoruba-language films like Aníkúlápó and Jagun Jagun have topped Netflix charts, bringing Nollywood stories to global audiences who watch with subtitles.
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 Yoruba voice features with an API built for messy, real-world conversations.
