Cooperative-owned voice AI infrastructure
Africa's Voice
"Africa speaks for itself."
We are building the voice AI infrastructure for African languages — collected ethically, owned cooperatively, and ready for the products that will define the next decade of computing on the continent.
The problem
220 million Nigerians. No working voice AI in their languages.
Every AI product deployed in Nigeria today either ignores local languages or fails when customers speak them. Dropped calls. Unreviewed complaints. Lost trust. Invisible in dashboards — devastating in reality.
| Provider | Igbo | Yoruba | Hausa | Pidgin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI Whisper large-v3 | ~55% | ~55% | ~50% | ~35% |
| Google Speech-to-Text | Not supported | 60%+ | 55%+ | 45%+ |
| AWS Transcribe | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
| Africa's Voice (target) | <30% ✓ | <30% ✓ | <28% ✓ | <25% ✓ |
The solution
Three layers. One cooperative infrastructure.
Olu Earn App
Community collection platform
Contributors record in their language and earn money per accepted recording. They are cooperative members who own their data and receive dividends when datasets sell.
Africa's Voice Dataset
Validated speech corpus
Ethically sourced. Demographically balanced. Domain-specific. Human-verified transcripts. NDPA 2023 compliant with a full consent audit chain.
Africa's Voice API
Voice AI infrastructure
ASR and TTS for Nigerian languages. Sub-30% WER target on Igbo and Yoruba. Per-minute pricing. Enterprise SaaS for call centre intelligence.
The cooperative
Owned by the people whose voices built it.
Africa's Voice is structured as a cooperative — a registered legal form in Nigeria that exists to share value with members rather than concentrate it. Forty percent of all revenue from dataset sales and API usage is distributed to contributor-members as quarterly dividends. This is not a CSR feature. It is the architecture.
Read about the cooperative structure →Read about the companyWe are not speaking for Africa. Africa speaks for itself. We built the microphone.
— The Africa's Voice manifesto