Neoform AI

Need speech recognition, text-to-speech or translation for African dialects that mainstream AI models mostly ignore? Neoform AI builds models for exactly those under-represented languages and sells them to developers through an API.

Neoform AI is an AI API and language model platform that covers voice assistance, speech recognition, text-to-speech, translation and content localization for African dialects.

The main promise is access.

Neoform AI wants more people and businesses in Africa to be able to build with AI in the language their users actually speak, instead of defaulting to English or French.

That makes it most relevant if you are building an education product, a voice interface or a localized app for African markets.

Coverage is limited to African dialects, so you will need another provider for other languages.

No model performance figures are published, which makes it hard to judge accuracy before you test it yourself.

The company's roadmap ran from July to October 2024, which suggests some features were still being built, so check what is live before you plan around it.