Data & Annotation
Voice & Speech Data Collection in Kenya.
Diverse speech data, including African languages and accents.
Speech models often miss accents, dialects and noisy conditions. We collect and transcribe speech from a diverse speaker pool across East Africa and beyond.
- Diverse speakers
- Time-aligned transcripts
- Consent-tracked
100%
Of recordings with documented consent
- Scripted, spontaneous, conversational, commands
- Speech types
- Studio, home, in-car, outdoor
- Environments
- Swahili, East African languages, English, French
- Languages
- Consent, demographics, device, conditions
- Metadata
Overview
Affordable voice and speech data collection for companies in the US, UK, Germany and New Zealand
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Recording scripts are designed to your specification.
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Speakers are recruited across ages, genders, regions and accents, and record in booths, ordinary rooms, cars or noisy streets.
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Every file gets signal checks, then trained transcribers produce time-aligned transcripts, with a second transcriber reviewing a sample of each batch.
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Consent, demographic and recording metadata are logged for every speaker.
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Strengths include Swahili, Sheng, Kikuyu, Luo, Luhya, Somali, Amharic, and African-accented English and French.
At a glance
Targets are agreed per client and written into your SLA.
- Of recordings with documented consent
- 100%
- Transcription review on every batch
- 2-pass
- African languages and accents
- 10+
- Scripts and acoustic conditions
- Custom
What's included
What's included in our voice & speech data service.
Take one piece or all of it. Every item runs to documented procedures with an owner, a target and weekly reporting.
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Scripted recordings
Speakers read prompts you provide or that we design.
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Conversational data
Natural two-person or group conversations on set topics.
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Wake words and commands
Short command sets for assistants and devices.
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Transcription
Verbatim or clean transcripts with timestamps.
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Speaker and event labels
Who spoke when, plus noises and overlaps.
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Audio QA
Checks for noise, clipping and silence.
How it fits together
From recording to ready-to-train audio.
Raw recordings are labelled, reviewed, quality-checked and delivered in your format, with two human checks and an error feedback loop along the way.
How it works
How voice & speech data with Maxed BPO works.
A supervised path from first call to a fully managed team, usually live within 2 to 3 weeks.
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Specification
We agree languages, hours, speakers, scripts and conditions.
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Recruit speakers
Diverse contributors are recruited with informed consent.
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Record and check
Audio is captured and run through audio QA.
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Transcribe and deliver
Transcripts, metadata and audio delivered in your format.
Who it's for
Who uses our voice & speech data service.
- Speech recognition (ASR) developers
- Voice assistant and smart device makers
- Call analytics and transcription companies
- Researchers working on low-resource languages
- Automotive in-car voice teams
Platforms
Tools and platforms we work in.
Your team works inside the systems you already use. Don't see yours? We learn custom tools too.
- Audacity
- Praat
- ELAN
- Label Studio
- Transcription tools
- Custom recording apps
- Google Drive
- AWS S3
- Azure Blob
- Python QA scripts
FAQ
Voice & Speech Data: your questions.
Something else on your mind? Our team replies within one working day.
Speak to a specialist
Tell us your volumes and goals. We reply within one working day with a suggested team and price.
Get a free quoteWhich languages can you record?
Swahili and many East African languages, plus African-accented English and French.
How is consent handled?
Each speaker signs a form explaining how their voice will be used, and records are kept per file.
Can you record in noisy environments?
Yes, in cars, streets, markets and other real-world settings on request.
What formats do you deliver?
WAV or FLAC audio with JSON, CSV or TextGrid transcripts, or your own format.
Related AI services
Often paired with voice & speech data.
Get a free speech data quote
A no-obligation consultation to design your team, hours and price. Most quotes are back within one working day.