Intron, a Nigerian AI startup that provides speech-to-text and text-to-speech transcription tools for African languages, has expanded its speech recognition platform, Sahara, to support 57 languages, adding 24 new ones as it deepens its push into healthcare, legal, financial services, and telecom. Sahara v2 covers 23 African languages within that total and supports more than 500 distinct African accents. The 24 newly added languages include Hausa, Swahili, isiZulu, Yoruba, Kinyarwanda, Twi, Igbo, isiXhosa, African French, Amharic, Bemba, Luganda, Oromo, Pidgin, Shona, and Wolof. Olatunji said commercial demand guided the selection. The upgrade also introduces what the company describes as the world’s first bilingual Swahili-English automatic speech recognition model built to handle code-...