Voice AI research lab

Voice AI for the languages people speak at home. Searchable text, captions and automated actions, built on our own research. Voices soon.

studio.bhala.ai · Live captions
Live · about 2 s behind
~2 sfrom the speaker to the caption on a live broadcast
$0.02a minute, less at volume
60 minfree to start, no card needed
4languages live today
isiZuluSawubonaTranscripts · captions · live captions
isiXhosaMoloTranscripts · captions · live captions
SepediThobelaTranscripts · captions · live captions
KiswahiliHabariTranscripts · captions · live captions

Who it's for

Contact centres

Every call in writing, in the language the caller chose.

Each call comes back timed to every word, with the language detected and any harmful speech flagged.

Customer call 4417 · Sepedi
Sepedi · detectedHarmful speech · none
00:00:03Dumela, ke nyaka go botšiša ka ga akhaonte ya ka.
00:00:07Ke lefile, eupša tšhelete ga e se ya fihla.
Automated actions

Train your own intents. Act on every call.

Teach Bhala what matters to your business: a payment question, a complaint, a cancellation. Every call and message is labelled with your intents, so your systems can route, alert or follow up on their own.

Studio · Intents · Billing desk
Payment question42 examples
Complaint31 examples
Cancel service18 examples
SepediKe lefile, eupša tšhelete ga e se ya fihla.
Payment question→ route to billing

Broadcasters

Captions on air, about two seconds behind, in the language of the show.

Platforms and media

Subtitles for every video, machine or reviewed by a person, and harmful speech caught in voice notes and audio posts.

Coming soon

Voices that speak these languages.

Natural speech in isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sepedi and Kiswahili. Join the early list to use it first.

Research

An estimated 3.4 billion people speak languages today's AI barely hears.

So we start with the language

Its sounds, its tones, how its words are built. Then we design speech models around them.

Studio

Then put it to work

Recordings, calls and broadcasts become timed text, captions and insight, in one place.

API

And open it to builders

The models behind Studio, through one API, in your own product.

Hear what your audience is saying.

60 free minutes to start, then $0.02 a minute.