Phonetico API

Speech technology for Ethiopian languages

File transcription with word-level timestamps for Amharic, Tigrinya, Afaan Oromo, Sidamo, Wolaytta and Sebatbet Gurage, and Amharic, Tigrinya and Afaan Oromo text-to-speech, in one API.

Quickstart Get API key API reference

curl -X POST https://api.phonetico.ai/v1/asr/upload \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer pk_live_your_key_here" \
  -F "[email protected]" \
  -F "localeCode=amh"

Build paths

Choose how you build

Pick the surface that fits your workload. Same models, same languages, same pricing.

One-shot transcription

POST a file, get a transcript. The simplest path for podcasts, recordings, and async pipelines.

Start with file upload

Word timestamps

Per-word timing for subtitles, click-to-seek players, and search-within-audio.

See word timestamps

Text-to-speech

Speech from preset voices or your own voice sample, with a delivery instruction on Speak 2. Priced per character.

Synthesize text

Languages

Ethiopian languages

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Each card shows ASR (transcription) and TTS (synthesis) support separately. They evolve independently, and this list is read from the same catalogue the API uses to accept a call.

አማርኛ

ትግርኛ

Afaan Oromoo

Sidaamu Afoo