Hometecnologia · Abomey-Calavi, Bénin

Democratizing AI
in local languages.

HMTC brings artificial intelligence closer to everyday people by making it work in the languages they speak — starting with Maïka for African languages.

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12African languages

740M+potential speakers

v1language integration

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Coverage

The languages we speak.

Every country where a Maïka language is spoken is highlighted. Tap a country to see its languages, their potential reach, and try them in Maïka.

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Product

Meet Maïka — including our financial AI server.

Maïka is an evolving artificial intelligence built to operate in local languages. It includes HMTC’s financial AI server: the API backend that can be queried for money-amount understanding, payment speech, and signed audio in African languages.

19languages supported by v1 logic

15languages with live audio

674proprietary audio atoms

Version 1 use cases

PaymentsRead transaction amounts aloud in the customer's local language at POS and merchant terminals.

Fintech alertsGenerate spoken confirmations for mobile money, agent banking, savings groups, and receipts.

Voice-first appsGive health, agriculture, education, and public-service tools a local-language speech layer.

Financial AI serverQuery the Maïka API backend for language-specific financial text and signed audio.

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Product

Meet Tassie — our voice payment terminal.

Tassie is an HMTC product for merchants: it receives Mobile Money transactions, verifies them, announces payments aloud in local languages, and keeps a transaction history.

Tassie · wpay.bj

The financial voice assistant for African commerce.

Built for shops, agents and market sellers, Tassie connects payment confirmation, local-language audio and merchant records in one practical terminal.

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Developers

Build with our financial AI server.

The Maïka API is HMTC’s financial AI server for composing money amounts into African-language text and signed audio.

POST /api/compose

# Example API call
curl -X POST https://maika.hmtc.bj/api/compose \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"lang":"fon","amount":7500}'

Amount-to-WordsCompose amounts with language-specific numeration rules.
Signed audioReturn short-lived audio URLs while keeping the underlying recordings protected.
Payment speechMake transaction confirmations understandable in local languages.
Conversational AIBroader local-language assistants. Evolution roadmap.

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Data assets

Protected Maïka data assets.

The v1 audio corpus is a proprietary HMTC asset used through the Maïka API. The API remains available, but the underlying recordings, manifests, and metadata are not distributed for reuse.

maika-v1 — Audio Atoms

2026 · controlled HMTC data asset

Proprietary

Files674 WAV

StatusProtected

Languages19

Access policy Maïka audio atoms, manifests, metadata, and derived corpora are proprietary HMTC assets. Public use is provided through the Maïka API only.

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