Cencori and Spitch Partner to Give African Developers Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and Amharic Voice AI Through One API
Cencori and Spitch have partnered to integrate African language voice AI models into the Cencori AI Gateway. This allows developers to easily implement speech-to-text and text-to-speech for Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, and Amharic.
Why it matters
This integration addresses a significant gap in AI accessibility for African languages, enabling better digital services for the continent's mobile-first population.
Nigerian AI cloud infrastructure company Cencori and African voice AI startup Spitch have partnered to make text-to-speech and speech-to-text models for African languages available directly through the Cencori AI Gateway — a stack-level integration that lets developers pull Spitch's voice capabilities through the same API and developer tooling they already use for other AI providers on the platform.
According to Cencori co-founder Daniel Oreofe, Spitch currently supports text-to-speech and speech-to-text capabilities across Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, English and Amharic. Through the integration, developers can select a Spitch model inside Cencori without building or maintaining a separate provider integration for it.
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