Build products in Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya, Swahili, Hausa, Sidama and Wolaytta with APIs and SDKs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, language models, translation, and realtime voice.
We purpose-built Text to Speech, Speech to Text, and the Addis-፩-አሌፍ language model for African languages. No reselling, no third-party model fees. The whole stack is ours.
Natural speech in Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya, Swahili, Hausa, Sidama and Wolaytta. 56 production voices, proper intonation and pronunciation, billed per generated minute.
Addis Scribe transcribes Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya, Swahili, Hausa, Sidama and Wolaytta, live or from uploads, on our own models.
Amharic and Afaan Oromo text generation and chat. Our own model.
Speech in, speech out over a single WebSocket.
On-prem and VPC deployment for banks, telcos, NGOs, and governments. Your data, your infrastructure, your voice.
Voices in Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya, Swahili, Hausa, Sidama and Wolaytta, billed per generated minute. Press play to hear a sample.
The same sentence, every major provider. Most go silent on Amharic, Afaan Oromo and Tigrinya. We build for all three.
የአንድ ማህበረሰብ እውነተኛ ውበት የሚገለጸው፣ የራሱን ታሪክ በራሱ አንደበት ሲተርክ ነው።
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Facebook MMSOnly Addis AI ships production voices for all three languages.
Here is what our live Text to Speech, Speech to Text, and language model make possible, with proof points from real work on the Addis platform.
One SDK. Voices and speech-to-text in seven African languages out of the box. Free credit on signup. Usage-based pricing, no surprises.
Type-safe async client for JS and Python. npm i addisai / pip install addisai and you're live.
Same API shape. Point baseURL at Addis AI and your existing chat code runs unchanged.
Pay as you go, no subscription. Voice at $0.016 per generated minute, LLM from $1.90 per 1M tokens. See pricing.
Priced per modality, metered by the token or the character. Start with $3.17 in free credit.
Lifelike speech in 7 African languages at one flat rate. Streaming and real time in Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya, Swahili, Hausa, Sidama and Wolaytta.
Translation is included, no separate endpoint pricing.
Flagship African-language model for chat, generation, and translation.
Billed on transcribed text only, audio input is free, one rate for Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya, Hausa, Sidama, Wolaytta and Swahili. About ETB 0.70 per minute of speech. Hausa, Sidama, Wolaytta and Swahili are written in the Latin alphabet, which takes about twice as many characters, so a minute costs about twice as much.
Accurate speech to text, live or from uploads, in 7 African languages.
The useful short answers are here. Parameters, limits, error codes, and troubleshooting stay in the developer docs so they remain precise and current.
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