Sauti za Kenya
Speech that sounds like Kenya.
Turn text into Kenyan English and Kiswahili, with the timing of every word. Voices from Kenyan actors, prices in shillings, and an API your code already speaks.
- Kenyan English and Kiswahili
- Word timings
- M-Pesa or card, in shillings
You send
Karibu! Your order of KES 1,200 is on its way.
It says
Karibu! Your order of one thousand two hundred shillings is on its way.
language
en
alignment
per character
character-cost
46
The voices
Kenyan actors. Real contracts.
Every voice is a Kenyan voice actor, recorded in a Nairobi studio and paid under a contract that says what their voice may be used for. Each one reads both Kenyan English and Kiswahili.
In the studio now.
Our first voices are being recorded with Kenyan actors. Sign up, and you'll hear them in your workspace as soon as they're ready.
Read the Kenyan way
Shillings, not K-E-S.
Speech models trip over what Kenyans write every day. Navoras writes it out before a voice sees it: money, phone numbers, paybills, dates, percentages, and times in Swahili time when the sentence is in Kiswahili.
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Each sentence read in its own language, so text that mixes English and Kiswahili sounds natural.
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Counties, towns, institutions and the brands everyone says, from a lexicon kept by our Kiswahili editor.
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Your own words, from pronunciation dictionaries you control: brand names, products, people.
Your order of KES 1,200 is on its way.
EnglishYour order of one thousand two hundred shillings is on its way.
Lipa KES 1,200 kupitia Paybill 247247.
KiswahiliLipa shilingi elfu moja mia mbili kupitia Paybill mbili nne saba mbili nne saba.
Call us on 0712 345 678 before 9:00 a.m.
EnglishCall us on oh seven one two, three four five, six seven eight before nine a.m.
Duka letu linafunguliwa kila siku kuanzia 9:00 asubuhi.
KiswahiliDuka letu linafunguliwa kila siku kuanzia saa tatu asubuhi.
Pata punguzo la 25% leo.
KiswahiliPata punguzo la asilimia ishirini na tano leo.
Worked out just now by the same text layer your requests go through.
For developers
Switch in two minutes.
Navoras answers the same requests as the most widely used text-to-speech API: the same paths, fields, headers and errors. Code written for it works with three changes.
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The address. Point your client at https://navoras.com.
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The key. A Navoras key, in the same header.
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The voice IDs. Pick Kenyan voices, and use their IDs.
- Word timings
- Streaming
- Forced alignment
- Pronunciation dictionaries
- Free test keys
- Logging off on every plan
curl -X POST "https://navoras.com/v1/text-to-speech/VOICE_ID" \
-H "xi-api-key: $NAVORAS_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"text": "Karibu! Your order of KES 1,200 is on its way."}' \
--output karibu.mp3
Start with a test key: it's free, and gives back tones timed like speech. How to move your code
Pricing
In shillings. By M-Pesa or card.
A credit is a character, in English or Kiswahili. Plans grant credits every month; top-ups add more whenever you need them.
Free
Try the voices. Not for commercial use; credit Navoras.
Free
- 10,000 credits a month
- 2 requests at a time
- History kept 7 days
- 1 team member
- Not for commercial use
Starter
For a producer's first ads.
KES 650 / month
KES 16.25 per 1,000 credits
- 40,000 credits a month
- Unused credits kept a month more
- 3 requests at a time
- History kept 30 days
- 1 team member
- 1 pronunciation dictionary
- Commercial use of the audio
Creator
Ads and narration every week, with batches.
KES 2,600 / month
KES 13 per 1,000 credits
- 200,000 credits a month
- Unused credits kept a month more
- 5 requests at a time
- History kept 60 days
- 3 team members
- 5 pronunciation dictionaries
- Commercial use of the audio
Pro
For studios and apps that speak all day.
KES 9,900 / month
KES 9.90 per 1,000 credits
- 1,000,000 credits a month
- Unused credits kept a month more
- 10 requests at a time
- History kept 90 days
- 10 team members
- 20 pronunciation dictionaries
- Commercial use of the audio
Business
Volume, invoices and a data processing agreement.
KES 39,000 / month
KES 7.80 per 1,000 credits
- 5,000,000 credits a month
- Unused credits kept a month more
- 20 requests at a time
- History kept 90 days
- 25 team members
- Unlimited pronunciation dictionaries
- Commercial use of the audio
- Invoices and a data processing agreement
Every voice has a contract
Recorded with consent, paid fairly, and used only as each actor agreed. No scraped audio, and never another provider's output.
Your text stays yours
Kept only for your plan's history days, or not at all with logging off. Never used to train our models.
Made for Kenyan law
Built to Kenya's Data Protection Act, with a data processing agreement for organisations that need one.
Do I have to change my code to switch?
Barely. Navoras answers the same requests as the most widely used text-to-speech API, in the same shapes. Change the base URL, the key and the voice IDs; the rest of your code stays as it is.
Can I pay with M-Pesa?
Yes. Pay for 1, 3 or 12 months of a plan, or buy a top-up, with M-Pesa or a card, in shillings. M-Pesa doesn't renew by itself, so we remind you before your months run out.
Does Kiswahili cost more than English?
No. A credit is a character on the standard model, in either language, and the same words asked for again with the same seed cost nothing.
Where do the voices come from?
From Kenyan voice actors, recorded in a studio and paid under contracts that say what their voices may be used for. We never use another provider's voices or output.
Do you keep my text?
Only for your plan's history days, so you can listen again, and not at all for a request or key with logging off. We never train on your text or audio.
Is there a free way to try it?
Yes. Your first workspace comes with the free plan's monthly credits, and test keys answer every request for free with tones timed like speech, for wiring things up.
Give your product a Kenyan voice.
Start on the free plan, with credits every month and a test key that never costs a shilling.