Transcript0:04
Abeg, remind me make I call Mama by six o’clock.
PidginEnglish1 transcript
Pidgin and English, as spoken
One transcript that keeps the switch between languages, word for word.
Speech AI for Nigerian Pidgin
Built around the way we speak.
Open speech recognition from Tala Labs, tested where people actually talk.
TranscribedTok234 Mini
How far? Wetin dey happen?
Hi — what’s going on?
What it does
Speech recognition that hears Pidgin as it’s spoken
Built for voice notes, calls and markets — not read-aloud textbook sentences.
Word error rateby condition
QuietCallStreetMarket
Illustrative · numbers from the paper
Tested where it’s loud
Every release is scored in quiet rooms, on calls, on the street and in markets.
Tok234 Minion device
Offline mode
Model size[—] MB
NetworkNot needed
Runs on the phone in your hand
Tok234 Mini works offline on a laptop or a mid-range phone.
Models
Two sizes, one way of speaking
Trained on the same data. Mini for devices, Large for servers.
On this phoneOffline
Mama — voice note
0:12Customer call
1:48Market price
0:31
MiniFast and small. Runs on a laptop CPU or a mid-range phone.
Batch jobTok234 Large
[—]hours transcribed
calls_2026-10.zip
Donefield_mile12/
Donesupport_queue/
RunningLargeOur most accurate model. For servers and batch transcription.
How we test
From the street to the benchmark
The Tala method. Field-testing is where most of the learning happens.
STEP 04 / 06
Field-test
Calls, markets, noisy rooms
Mile 12 market · phone calls · noisy rooms
Why 234
A name you can dial
Tok234
TokPidgin for “talk”.
+234Nigeria’s dialling code.
Tok am your way.
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