Kalam Chad

KalamAI is a real-time multilingual video conferencing platform built specifically for Africa. Every participant speaks in their native language (Hausa, Fulfulde, Arabic, French, Bambara) and hears the meeting translated live into their chosen language, voice-to-voice, with no configuration required. The full speech-to-speech pipeline runs on self-hosted infrastructure: faster-Whisper for transcription, Meta SeamlessM4T v2 for translation, and a three-tier TTS system (edge-tts for neural voices, Meta MMS-TTS for low-resource African languages, espeak-ng as universal fallback). Beyond real-time translation, KalamAI is architected as a sovereign communication layer for institutions. No audio or transcript data touches a third-party cloud. The platform runs entirely via Docker Compose on any server — including on-premise government hardware in Chad — and supports 10 languages at launch, with an active roadmap to integrate 16 Sara dialects spoken by ~3 million people in Chad and the CAR, through fine-tuned Whisper and VITS/MMS-TTS models trained on locally collected corpora.