Kiswahili
Voice Typing in Swahili
Swahili is Africa's most international language, serving as a lingua franca across East Africa. Its noun class system (with 18 classes!) and agglutinative verb structure create complex word forms that take time to type. Zavi AI handles Swahili's rich morphology — including the regional differences between Kenyan, Tanzanian, and Congolese Swahili — producing clean, grammatically correct text.
100+ million
Speakers worldwide
East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)
Primary regions
Script
Latin alphabet with straightforward phonetic spelling
Why Swahili Voice Typing Is a Game-Changer
Swahili is the most widely spoken African language and a lingua franca across East Africa. Here are the specific challenges Zavi AI solves for Swahili speakers:
18 noun classes that govern agreement patterns across verbs, adjectives, and pronouns
Agglutinative verb morphology with subject, tense, object, and extension markers
Regional vocabulary differences between Kenyan, Tanzanian, and Congolese Swahili
Code-switching with English (in Kenya) or French (in DRC) in everyday speech
How People Use Zavi for Swahili
East African business communication
Create professional Swahili content for Kenyan, Tanzanian, or pan-East African business audiences. Zavi handles the formal register correctly.
Swahili media and journalism
Journalists and content creators can dictate Swahili articles and scripts rapidly, with Zavi ensuring correct noun class agreements.
Swahili-English bilingual workflows
East African professionals commonly switch between Swahili and English. Zavi handles this code-switching naturally.
How Swahili Voice Typing Works
Speak in Swahili
Open any app and tap the microphone on your Zavi keyboard. Speak naturally in Swahili (Kiswahili) — don't worry about fillers, pauses, or getting every word perfect.
AI Polishes Your Swahili Text
Zavi's Zero-Prompting AI removes filler words, corrects grammar, adds punctuation, and handles Swahili-specific formatting — including latin alphabet with straightforward phonetic spelling.
Translate or Keep in Swahili
Get your output in clean Swahili text, or instantly translate to English or any of 100+ other languages. Perfect for multilingual workflows across East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda).
Swahili Voice Typing FAQ
Which Swahili dialect does Zavi support?
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Does Zavi handle Swahili noun classes?
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