2024
MsingiAI founded in Nairobi, Kenya. Initial Sauti ASR training on 800 hours of Swahili speech data.
About MsingiAI
We are an AI research and platform company based in Nairobi, Kenya. Our mission: build Sauti, a good dedicated Swahili speech model, and make it the infrastructure layer for African enterprise voice applications.
“For African enterprises, developers, and researchers who need AI that understands local languages and context, MsingiAI builds Sauti as a dedicated Swahili speech model backed by open science and a growing set of enterprise pilots. Unlike global voice AI platforms that treat Swahili as one of many secondary languages, MsingiAI goes deep on the language and use cases that matter most across East Africa.”
Company Timeline
2025 Q1
AkiliCode-14B released as open weights on Hugging Face. SwahiliCode-14B dataset published.
2025 Q2
Sauti 2.0 launched with F5-TTS and Vocos vocoder integration, achieving WER < 12% on Swahili ASR benchmark.
2025 Q3
GITEX Kenya 2025: Trilateral voice AI demonstration with Crane AI Labs and VoicERA.
2025 to Present
Active pilot conversations with Hello Tractor, Shamba Records, and Equity Bank. Website revamp underway.
Core Team
Enterprise products and open academic research.
Founder & CEO
Gilbert Korir
Cofounder & Head of Operations
Irene Korir
Cofounder & Technical Lead
Kevin Obote
Fullstack/Cloud infra & DevOps Engineer
Benard Otieno
Partners
Enterprise products and open academic research.
Active Pilot Conversations
These organizations are in active discussion with MsingiAI for Sauti API integration pilots.
Hello Tractor
Voice-first Swahili interface for tractor fleet booking, maintenance routing, and farmer inquiries across Kenya and Nigeria.
Shamba Records
IVR voice input system transforming spoken farmer credit assessments into digitized financial profiles for rural credit scoring.
Equity Bank
Low-latency Swahili TTS and ASR engine integration into automated IVR customer care channels for mobile banking assistance.
Partner with MsingiAI
Whether you're a research institution, enterprise buyer, or developer, we're open to collaborations that push African language AI forward.
Platform & Speech
Research & Code
Legal & Compliance
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