Real-time translation for international investor calls in Afrikaans
Soniox App translates speech in real time, word by word, across 60+ languages and is built for startup founders who work across language barriers. Conversations flow naturally with no waiting. Works with Afrikaans and 60+ other languages.
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Speak your language, be understood in theirs in Afrikaans
Language barriers slow down conversations and create misunderstandings. Soniox App removes them. Get seamless Afrikaans transcriptions today.
Cross-border collaboration
Work with Afrikaans-speaking teams, clients, and partners without language getting in the way.
Connect with anyone
Have meaningful conversations with Afrikaans speakers regardless of the language barrier. No preparation needed.
Travel, work, daily life
From traveling in Afrikaans-speaking countries to joining international meetings, Translator handles any situation where languages differ.
Understand every word
Even when Afrikaans accents or fast speech make listening hard, Translator shows you exactly what was said.
Translation that keeps up with conversation in Afrikaans
Soniox App translates as people speak, not after they finish. Handles Afrikaans across varieties like Cape Afrikaans and Orange River Afrikaans.
Hear and read translations
Afrikaans translations appear as text on screen so you can follow the conversation visually.
60+ languages
Translate Afrikaans and 60+ other languages with natural conversation flow.
Automatic language detection
Switch between Afrikaans and other languages naturally mid-sentence without changing any settings.
Zero delay
Translation happens as Afrikaans words are spoken — not sentence by sentence — so conversations feel natural.
Afrikaans at a glance
Key facts about Afrikaans.
speakers worldwide
countries where spoken
Afrikaans is spoken in South Africa and Namibia. Soniox App is trained on real-world Afrikaans speech from multiple regions and accents.
Afrikaans transcription accuracy
Soniox App is powered by next-gen speech AI model developed inhouse by Soniox. The table below shows how Soniox AI performs on Afrikaans transcription compared to 6 other providers.
| Provider | WER (Afrikaans) | Accuracy |
|---|---|---|
| AWS | 6.5% | 93.5% |
| Soniox#2 | 7.4% | 92.6% |
| 7.4% | 92.6% | |
| Azure | 12.7% | 87.3% |
| ElevenLabs | 14.6% | 85.4% |
| OpenAI | 25.5% | 74.5% |
| AssemblyAI | 64% | 36.0% |
Word error rate (WER) measures how many words a speech-to-text engine gets wrong. Lower is better.
Soniox outperforms Azure, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, and AssemblyAI on Afrikaans transcription accuracy.
Soniox App works with Afrikaans and 60+ more languages
Soniox App transcribes and translates in Afrikaans and over 60 other languages with professional-grade accuracy.
Soniox App: The all-in-one AI speech toolkit
Smart Scribe, Translator, and Voice Typing cover three ways people work with speech.
One app. Everything you do with voice in Afrikaans.
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Learn everything Soniox can do
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Built for any use case
From clinical documentation to creative workflows, Soniox App is built for the situations where accurate transcription and translation matter most.
Meeting transcription
Capture every decision and action item from meetings automatically.
Lecture transcription
Record complete lecture transcripts for study and accessibility.
Medical dictation
Document clinical encounters hands-free with professional accuracy.
Hearing accessibility
Real-time captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing users in any setting.
Travel translator
Communicate across language barriers with real-time spoken translation.
Voice notes
Capture ideas and thoughts hands-free and turn them into searchable text.
Private by default
Soniox never stores your recordings and never uses your audio to train models. Everything is processed securely in real-time, then gone.
Afrikaans language trivia
Hallo - that's how you say hello in Afrikaans.
History and background
- history
Afrikaans evolved from 17th-century Dutch spoken by settlers at the Cape of Good Hope.
- history
It was recognized as an official language of South Africa in 1925.
- history
Afrikaans is the youngest Germanic language, having developed over roughly 300 years.
Distinctive features
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Double negation is grammatically required — "Ek kan nie Afrikaans praat nie" uses two negatives.
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Verb conjugation is highly simplified compared to Dutch, with almost no inflection for person or number.
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The language has absorbed loanwords from Malay, Portuguese, Bantu languages, and Khoisan languages.