Real-Time Streaming Speech Transcription
Stream live audio over WebSocket and receive accurate transcripts in milliseconds. Built for meetings, call centers, and voice applications.
Engineered for High-Performance Real-Time Speech
Discover features optimized for low-latency live transcription and seamless WebSocket developer integration.
WebSocket Live Streaming
Establish a persistent, bidirectional socket connection to stream raw audio and receive text in real-time.
Interim & Final Hypotheses
Receive fast, partial results as speech occurs, followed instantly by highly accurate finalized sentences.
African-Language Optimized
Specifically engineered to capture localized speech patterns, regional pitch, and native accents.
Resilient Network Reconnection
Built-in auto-retry, buffering, and recovery mechanisms to maintain socket stability over fluctuating networks.
Metadata & Timing Offsets
Gain rich meta context with word-level timestamps, confidence intervals, and silence detection parameters.
Enterprise Security & SDKs
Secure streaming endpoints supported by drop-in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript developer SDKs.
Model Performance
(WER)
Our model delivers competitive Word Error Rates (WER) across multiple African languages, ensuring high accuracy for diverse speech patterns. Lower is better.
| Language | CommonVoice | FLEURS |
|---|---|---|
| English | 15.86% | 14.92% |
| Hausa | 14.46% | 15.92% |
| Swahili | 25.3% | 23.38% |
| Igbo | 24.78% | 23.11% |
| Pidgin | 24.59% | - |
| Yoruba | 22.62% | 21.3% |
*WER (Word Error Rate) is a common metric for measuring the performance of a speech recognition system.
Leading the Way
in Accuracy
See how Perigee-1 compares to other leading models across key African languages. Lower WER (Word Error Rate) indicates better performance.
| Language | Perigee-1 | AssemblyAI | OpenAI GPT-4o | Whisper-Large-V3 | Gemini 2 Flash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hausa | 15.72% | 96.73% | 83.74% | 96.47% | 64.95% |
| Igbo | 26.71% | 79.45% | 88.21% | ||
| Yoruba | 22.83% | 100.71% | 73.83% | 105.26% | 84.8% |
| Pidgin | 20.51% | 51.44% | 37.75% | 55.27% | 46.77% |
| Swahili | 17.93% | 62.41% | 47.35% | 62.3% | 39.14% |
| Kinyanwarda | 38.43% | 85.3% | 72.77% | ||
| English | 14.88% | 12% | 11.8% | 13.43% | 14.7% |
Celebrate Africa's Linguistic Diversity
Explore a wide range of supported languages, bridging communication gaps across the continent and beyond.
| LANGUAGE | TRANSCRIPTION | TRANSLATION | SUMMARIZATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | |||
| English | |||
| Fanti | |||
| Hausa | |||
| Igbo | |||
| Kinyawarda | |||
| Pidgin | |||
| Swahili | |||
| Twi | |||
| Yoruba |
Explore All Supported Languages
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