Observed arrival · 2026-11-02
Navoras is building a Kenyan voice API
Navoras is developing speech synthesis for Kenyan English and Kiswahili, with an API and text handling designed around local usage.
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- Developers building Kenyan English and Kiswahili voice features
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- Its text-normalization layer expands KES amounts, phone numbers, paybills, dates, percentages, and times before synthesis.
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The described pipeline expands Kenyan formats such as KES amounts and paybills before synthesis, and handles each sentence in its own language when English and Kiswahili are mixed. A Kiswahili editor maintains a lexicon for local names and brands; users can also define pronunciations. The page says the first actor-recorded voices are still being made, with workspace access offered once they are ready.
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