Voice AI for the way the world actually speaks

Why we exist

Speech recognition and synthesis have been optimised, for years, around a narrow band of American and British English. If your customers speak with an accent outside that band — or switch between two languages in the middle of a sentence, the way most bilingual people do — the model starts guessing. Support calls get transferred to humans. Voice products quietly get shelved.

We began with Nigerian English and Pidgin because that is the market we know best and the one most poorly served. But the engineering that makes those work — robustness to unfamiliar accents, handling code-switching mid-utterance, keeping inference close enough to the speaker that a conversation still feels like one — is not specific to Nigeria. It is what voice AI needs anywhere its users are not Californian.

One integration, both halves of the problem

Credufy Voice puts more than 870 production voices from ElevenLabs and Cartesia behind a single API, alongside our own work on African languages. You get the same catalogue of world-standard voices you would get going direct, plus the accents those catalogues do not cover — and you can switch providers without rewriting your integration.

Nigerian English and Pidgin are live today. Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo are in active training. We would rather tell you what is not finished than claim five languages and let you discover the gap in production.

Latency is a design constraint, not a metric

A conversation breaks the moment a reply arrives too late. Past roughly four hundred milliseconds, people start talking over the agent, repeat themselves, and hang up. That single number governs the architecture: inference runs from an African edge region rather than being round-tripped through a US data centre, and every layer of the stack is chosen for time-to-first-audio rather than benchmark scores.

Cloning a voice requires that voice's consent

We can clone a voice from about ten seconds of audio. That is powerful and it is obviously open to abuse, so the consent recording is part of the cloning flow rather than a checkbox: the speaker records a spoken phrase, we keep it, and every clone carries an audit trail back to it. We would rather lose the customer who objects to that than become a convenient tool for impersonation.

Built to be bought from anywhere

Teams in Lagos and teams in London have the same integration and the same API, and pay in the currency that makes sense for them — Naira through Paystack, or US dollars through Paddle, which acts as merchant of record and handles sales tax and VAT wherever you are. Pricing is set for each market rather than converted from the other, so neither side subsidises the other.

Who is behind it

Credufy Voice is built and operated by Credufy Technologies Limited, a company registered in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with its office at No. 1 Young Toby Ekechi Street, Kaura District, Abuja. It is part of the wider Credufy platform, which also builds examination preparation and education-intelligence products used across Nigeria.

You can reach a person by email at hello@credufy.com or by phone on +234 906 988 7022. Full details are on our contact page.