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Live Afrikaans speech translation API

Translate Afrikaans speech to and from 60+ languages in real time. Low-latency streaming, 3,600 language pairs, and accurate translation for voice agents, live captioning, and multilingual apps.

Production-ready Afrikaans speech translation API

Real conversations in Afrikaans include accents, regional dialects, code switching, and domain-specific vocabulary. Soniox is built to handle that variation in a single model, so live translation stays usable across regions and registers.

Soniox preserves formatting in the translated transcript, including names, numbers, addresses, IDs, and domain-specific terms.

Afrikaans belongs to the Indo-European > Germanic > West Germanic family. Soniox translates between Afrikaans and related languages, as well as any of 60+ supported targets and 3,600 language pairs in total.

A breakthrough in real-time Afrikaans translation

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Translate Afrikaans before the sentence ends

Meaning lands as it's spoken, not after the caption catches up.

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Afrikaans paired with 60+ languages

Both source and target. 3,600 pairs total, not English-centric.

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High quality Afrikaans output

Same model across every language, including historically underserved ones.

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Native-speaker Afrikaans STT accuracy

Accurate translation starts with accurate recognition across accents, multilingual speech, and language switching.

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Afrikaans names, numbers, and domain terms

Preserved in both transcript and translation, including phone numbers, emails, and IDs.

config.json
{
  "model": "stt-rt-v4",
  "translation": {
    "type": "one_way",
    "target_language": "af"
  }
}

Transcription + translation through a single stream

Afrikaans translation is built on top of Soniox Speech-to-Text API. Every spoken word is transcribed, and translation streams mid-sentence and both arrive together in a single labeled token stream.

Turn it on by adding a translation block to your request. Translation runs on the same WebSocket and the same model. Translated tokens come back interleaved with transcripts, with no extra round trip.

Live Afrikaans translation: written and spoken

Afrikaans speech-to-text translation

micLive Afrikaans speecharrow_right_altsubjectTranscript + translation

Translate live Afrikaans into written text with the Soniox STT API. Enable real-time translation with a config change. Soniox streams the Afrikaans transcript and translated text as speech happens.

Use it for Afrikaans captions, subtitles, meeting translation, agent assist, accessibility tools, and multilingual transcription.

Afrikaans speech-to-speech translation

micLive Afrikaans speecharrow_right_altvolume_upTranslated speech

Build full spoken Afrikaans translation by combining Soniox STT and Soniox TTS. Soniox recognizes Afrikaans, translates it in real time, and speaks the output in the target language with low latency.

Use it for live Afrikaans interpreters, bilingual voice agents, travel assistants, customer support, and real-time multilingual communication.

Live Afrikaans translation for captions, conversations and more

Stream live Afrikaans translation in two modes: one-way translates all speech into a single target language, two-way keeps a bilingual conversation flowing between Afrikaans and another language.

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Afrikaans speaker says: “Ons braai 6pm sharp, bring jou cooler en daai veggie skewers.”
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Speech is translated into English (or any of 60+ target languages) in real time.

One-way translation

Translate live speech to or from Afrikaans into a single target language. Everyone in the conversation sees the same translated stream.

Ideal for live captions, multilingual meetings, broadcasts, lectures, customer calls, and products where many speakers need to be understood in one language.

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Afrikaans speaker talks in Afrikaans.
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English speaker hears English.
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English speaker replies in English.
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Afrikaans speaker hears Afrikaans.

Two-way translation

Translate between Afrikaans and another language for live bilingual conversation. Each side speaks naturally and hears the other in their own language.

Soniox supports real-time two-way translation between any two of 60+ supported languages.

Built on the Soniox speech AI platform

Afrikaans translation is powered by the same infrastructure behind Soniox STT and TTS.

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Speech-to-Text

Native-speaker accuracy across 60+ languages, with support for multilingual speech, alphanumerics, speaker diarization, context.

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Translation

Real-time streaming translation across 3,600 language pairs, built for high quality and low delay across all supported languages.

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Text-to-speech

High-fidelity speech generation in 60+ languages, built for names, alphanumerics, language switching, and ultra-low-latency streaming.

Together, they create a complete real-time low-latency speech AI platform.

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About Afrikaans

Afrikaans has roughly 7,200,000 speakers across South Africa and Namibia.

Afrikaans evolved from 17th-century Dutch spoken by settlers at the Cape of Good Hope.

Double negation is grammatically required — "Ek kan nie Afrikaans praat nie" uses two negatives.

Translate between all languages

From Afrikaans to any supported language, or any supported language to Afrikaans. 3,600 language pairs, all real-time.

AfrikaansAlbanianArabicAzerbaijaniBasqueBelarusianBengaliBosnianBulgarianCatalanChineseCroatianCzechDanishDutchEnglishEstonianFinnishFrenchGalicianGermanGreekGujaratiHebrewHindiHungarianIndonesianItalianJapaneseKannadaKazakhKoreanLatvianLithuanianMacedonianMalayMalayalamMarathiNorwegianPersianPolishPortuguesePunjabiRomanianRussianSerbianSlovakSlovenianSpanishSwahiliSwedishTagalogTamilTeluguThaiTurkishUkrainianUrduVietnameseWelsh

Frequently asked questions

Does Soniox translate Afrikaans in real time?arrow_downward
Yes. Soniox streams Afrikaans translation while speech is still happening, so users see or hear meaning immediately instead of waiting for the sentence to end.
What language pairs are supported for Afrikaans?arrow_downward
Soniox supports translation between Afrikaans and any of 60+ supported languages — 3,600 language pairs in total. Both Afrikaans as the source and Afrikaans as the target are supported.
How does two-way Afrikaans translation work?arrow_downward
Two-way translation lets both sides of a conversation speak in their own language and hear the other side in theirs. A Afrikaans speaker can talk in Afrikaans while the other party hears their own language in real time, and vice versa.
Does Soniox handle dialects and accents in Afrikaans?arrow_downward
Yes. Soniox handles Afrikaans dialects like Cape Afrikaans, Orange River Afrikaans, and East Cape Afrikaans in a single model, along with accents and language switching, so live translation stays accurate across regions and registers.
Can Soniox translate names, numbers, and domain terms in Afrikaans?arrow_downward
Yes. Soniox preserves the details that matter — names, phone numbers, emails, IDs, addresses, verification codes, and domain-specific terminology — in both the Afrikaans transcript and the translated output.
Which other providers support live Afrikaans translation?arrow_downward
Based on their public docs, OpenAI and Azure list Afrikaans as a supported source language for real-time translation. Soniox is the only one of them that also supports two-way live translation across 60+ languages.
How fast is Afrikaans translation?arrow_downward
Soniox streams translated text as Afrikaans is being spoken, with ultra-low latency. Translation arrives before the sentence ends, rather than after long caption delays.
What can I build with Afrikaans translation?arrow_downward
Common use cases include multilingual voice agents, live interpreters, multilingual meetings, customer support and contact centers, real-time translated captions and subtitles, and accessibility and communication tools — all with Afrikaans as a source or target.

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