Malay to Afrikaans speech translation API
Stream Malay (Bahasa Melayu) speech and get Afrikaans (Afrikaans) back in real time. One WebSocket, ISO codes ms to af, and ultra-low latency for voice agents and live apps.
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Production-ready Malay to Afrikaans translation API
Real Malay speech includes accents, regional dialects, code switching, and domain-specific vocabulary. Soniox recognizes it in a single model and streams Afrikaans while the speaker is still talking.
Malay (Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Malay) and Afrikaans (Indo-European > Germanic > West Germanic) come from different language families, so word order and morphology differ. Soniox reorders meaning in-stream instead of word by word.
Soniox preserves formatting in the translated transcript, including names, numbers, addresses, IDs, and domain-specific terms.
A breakthrough in real-time Malay to Afrikaans translation
Translate before the sentence ends
Afrikaans meaning lands as Malay is spoken, not after the caption catches up.
Directional ms to af streaming
Set the source and target codes once. Both arrive in a single labeled token stream.
High quality Afrikaans output
Same model across every language, including historically underserved ones.
Native-speaker Malay STT accuracy
Accurate Afrikaans translation starts with accurate Malay recognition across accents and language switching.
Names, numbers, and domain terms
Preserved across the pair, including phone numbers, emails, and IDs.
{
"model": "stt-rt-v5",
"translation": {
"type": "one_way",
"source_language": "ms",
"target_language": "af"
}
}Malay and Afrikaans through a single stream
Malay to Afrikaans translation is built on top of Soniox Speech-to-Text API. Every spoken word is transcribed, and Afrikaans translation streams mid-sentence in the same labeled token stream.
Turn it on by adding a translation block with source_language: "ms" and target_language: "af". It runs on the same WebSocket and the same model, with no extra round trip.
Live Malay to Afrikaans: written and spoken
Malay to Afrikaans speech-to-text
Translate live Malay into written Afrikaans with the Soniox STT API. Soniox streams the Malay transcript and the Afrikaans translation as speech happens.
Use it for Afrikaans captions, subtitles, meeting translation, agent assist, and multilingual transcription.
Malay to Afrikaans speech-to-speech
Build full spoken Malay to Afrikaans translation by combining Soniox STT and Soniox TTS. Soniox recognizes Malay, translates it, and speaks Afrikaans with low latency.
Use it for live interpreters, bilingual voice agents, travel assistants, and customer support.
Live Malay to Afrikaans translation in action
Stream Malay to Afrikaans one-way to push all speech into Afrikaans, or two-way to keep a bilingual conversation flowing between the two languages.
One-way translation
Translate live Malay into Afrikaans. Everyone in the conversation sees the same translated stream.
Ideal for live captions, multilingual meetings, broadcasts, lectures, and customer calls.
Two-way translation
Translate between Malay and Afrikaans 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.
Accurate on both ends of the pair
Soniox transcribes Malay at 1.25% word error rate and Afrikaans at 1.25% word error rate. Accurate recognition on both sides is what makes the translation reliable.
Speech-to-Text
Native-speaker accuracy across 60+ languages, with support for multilingual speech, alphanumerics, speaker diarization, context.
Translation
Real-time streaming translation across 3,600 language pairs, built for high quality and low delay across all supported languages.
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.
About Malay and Afrikaans
Malay has roughly 290,000,000 speakers across Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore. Afrikaans has roughly 7,200,000 speakers across South Africa and Namibia.
Malay has been a lingua franca in Southeast Asia for centuries, used as a trade language across the archipelago.
Afrikaans evolved from 17th-century Dutch spoken by settlers at the Cape of Good Hope.
Soniox makes Malay to Afrikaans usable in real-time translation across every supported pair.
Translate Malay to any language
From Malay to Afrikaans, or Malay to any of 60+ supported languages. All real-time.
Frequently asked questions
How do I translate Malay to Afrikaans with the API?
Is Malay to Afrikaans translation real-time?
What about translating Afrikaans to Malay?
Does Soniox handle Malay dialects and accents?
Which other providers support Malay to Afrikaans?
How fast is Malay to Afrikaans translation?
Simple, usage-based pricing
Translate live audio from Malay to Afrikaans from ~$0.18/hour.
Translation is already built into Soniox Speech-to-Text API. When turned on, it adds about ~$0.06/hour in output token costs.
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