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title: "Lelapa AI: Call Transcription and Translation"
description: "Transcribe and translate multilingual contact centre calls in South Africa—real-time or batch. Handles noisy audio, multiple speakers and code-switching."
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published_at: "2026-03-25T06:39:36.844Z"
updated_at: "2026-09-28T03:01:50.374Z"
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# Lelapa AI: Call Transcription and Translation

Transcribe and translate multilingual contact centre calls in South Africa—real-time or batch. Handles noisy audio, multiple speakers and code-switching.

## Breadcrumbs

- [AI & Analytics](/categories/ai-analytics)
- [Lelapa AI](/lelapa-ai)

## Summary

Turn multilingual contact centre calls into usable text

Speech-to-text transcription and translation for high-volume contact centres in telecoms and financial services, with code-switching support for African languages.

## Product details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Website | https://lelapa.ai/ |
| Tagline | Turn multilingual contact centre calls into usable text |
| Primary country | South Africa |
| Platforms | Web, API |
| Average rating |  |
| Published reviews | 0 |
| Verified listing | No |

## About the product

Lelapa AI builds resource-efficient language AI tools for high-volume contact centres in telecoms and financial services, converting multilingual customer calls into structured text for analytics, QA, and compliance.

Key capabilities include:
- **Speech-to-text transcription (Vulavula Transcribe)** for real-world audio, built to handle **noisy environments**, **multiple speakers**, and **natural code-switching**, with **confidence scores** on outputs
- **Text-to-text translation (Vulavula Translate)** between **African languages and English**, designed to be **context-aware** and **code-switching aware** for conversational support workflows
- **Real-time and batch delivery modes** via **Vulavula Live** (transcribe conversations as they happen) and **Vulavula Sync** (process calls immediately after they end)
- Outputs designed to feed **analytics, QA, and compliance systems**, supporting use cases such as monitoring, agent performance insights, and multilingual customer support at scale

Available via **Web** and **API**.

Target users include **B2B contact centre teams** and operations leaders in **telcos and financial services** that manage large volumes of multilingual calls.

Notable in the African market context, the product focuses on **resource-efficient** deployment for constrained environments and supports widely spoken African languages (including **isiZulu, Sesotho, isiXhosa, Swahili, Yoruba, and Hausa**), reflecting a practical approach to multilingual customer service in Africa.

## Features

- [AI & Analytics](/categories/ai-analytics): Category
- [AI-Powered](/tags/ai-powered): Product feature or technology
- [B2B](/tags/b2b): Product feature or technology
- [South Africa](/countries/south-africa): Market

## Related pages

- [Alternatives](/lelapa-ai/alternatives)
- [Reviews](/lelapa-ai/reviews)
- [Transparency](/lelapa-ai/transparency)

## Access and citation

- [Canonical HTML page](https://liners.com/lelapa-ai)
- [Markdown route index](/sitemap.md)
- [Agent access guide](/llms.txt)