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-AI for African languages.
Local languages are the interface.
Tap a colored country to see which Maïka-AI languages are spoken there and the potential user reach for each language.
Meet Maïka-AI — our evolving AI.
Maïka-AI is an evolving artificial intelligence built to operate in local languages. Its current stage focuses on integrating African languages into practical NLP and speech workflows, beginning with number and money-amount understanding.
Build with Maïka-AI v1.
One public endpoint to compose money amounts into African-language text and audio atoms.
# 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.
- Audio atomsReturn ordered word pieces that map to recorded WAV files.
- Payment speechMake transaction confirmations understandable in local languages.
- Conversational AIBroader local-language assistants. Evolution roadmap.
Open data. Open science.
Our v1 audio corpus is public under a permissive licence — a practical foundation for integrating African languages into AI systems.
Meet the team.
A pan-African team of researchers and engineers democratizing AI from the continent — across Bénin, Ghana, Togo, Nigéria and Éthiopie.