Intron’s new voice model can follow African speakers who switch languages mid-sentence

Most Africans speak at least two languages and often blend them in a single sentence, like “My loan imekataliwa, but I paid yesterday.” In most speech recognition systems, English is transcribed while Swahili is dropped. Any company relying on that transcript loses half the meaning.

Intron, an Africa-focused voice technology company founded in Lagos, has released Sahara v2.5, a set of…