Lelapa AI Adds Voice Generation and Looks Beyond Africa: ‘We Built a Technology That’s Beneficial for a Majority World’

Lelapa AI is adding text-to-speech to its product line and preparing to take its language technology outside Africa, chief executive and co-founder Pelonomi Moiloa has told ITWeb TV — a move that would make the Johannesburg lab an exporter of AI methodology rather than a recipient of it. The company’s live API, Vulavula — “to talk” in xiTsonga — currently converts multilingual contact centre conversations into structured text for analytics, quality assurance and compliance, built for telecoms an