About Indigenius AI
Indigenius AI is a Nigerian artificial intelligence company focused on building multilingual voice AI systems, speech infrastructure, and conversational AI technologies designed for African languages and emerging markets. The company develops AI-powered voice agents, speech recognition systems, language models, and AI tools that help businesses and creators interact with users in local and global languages.
Previously known as CDIAL AI (Centre for Digitisation of Indigenous African Languages), the company rebranded to Indigenius AI as part of its broader vision to build scalable AI systems for language inclusion, accessibility, and enterprise automation.
Founded in 2021, Indigenius AI positions itself as an African-focused AI infrastructure company building technologies that enable businesses to deploy conversational AI agents capable of understanding multiple languages, accents, and speech patterns.
What Indigenius AI Does
Indigenius AI develops voice-first artificial intelligence systems that enable businesses and developers to create multilingual AI agents for customer engagement, automation, education, healthcare, financial services, and enterprise communication.
The company focuses heavily on speech and language AI infrastructure, including:
- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
- Text-to-Speech (TTS)
- Conversational AI agents
- Multilingual AI systems
- AI-powered voice cloning
- AI data collection and annotation
- Local language AI accessibility
- Voice automation for enterprises
Indigenius AI supports dozens of global and African languages and is building systems aimed at making AI more accessible to underserved and low-resource communities.
Products and Services
1. Indigenius AI Agent Studio
A no-code platform that allows businesses and creators to build, test, and deploy multilingual AI voice agents with telephony and web integrations. The platform supports customer support automation, sales, healthcare, banking, and other enterprise workflows.
2. Indigenius 1 Models
A collection of speech and language AI models accessible through APIs, designed to support multilingual conversational AI and voice applications.
3. Indigenius Mobile App
An AI-powered mobile application that enables users to contribute and validate local language data while earning rewards. The app supports multilingual speech and language dataset generation.
4. Indigenius Keyboards
A multilingual keyboard platform supporting over 180 languages, enabling users to communicate digitally in African and indigenous languages.
5. Indigenius Creative Studio
An AI-powered voice and audio creation platform that allows creators and businesses to generate multilingual voice content and synthetic speech experiences.
6. Collective Intelligence Platform
A crowdsourced AI data platform where contributors help generate and validate speech and language datasets used to train multilingual AI models.
Industries Served
Indigenius AI provides AI solutions for multiple industries, including:
- Banking
- Healthcare
- Agriculture
- E-commerce
- Customer support
- Education
- Enterprise communication
The company’s AI agents are designed to automate voice interactions while maintaining language and cultural relevance for local markets.
Founder(s)
Indigenius AI was founded by Yinka Iyinolakan, focused on multilingual AI infrastructure and African language digitisation initiatives. Public company information and ecosystem references also identify Shona Oluwatola as a key co-founder and executive involved in the company’s AI ecosystem development and multilingual AI strategy.
Impact and Ecosystem Development
Indigenius AI has positioned itself as one of the Nigerian AI companies focused on language inclusion and AI accessibility. The company has developed AI systems supporting multiple African languages while contributing to speech dataset generation, digital literacy, and AI workforce participation across underserved communities.
According to company reports, the platform has:
- Supported multilingual AI initiatives
- Processed large-scale voice interactions
- Enabled AI data contribution programmes
- Expanded access to local language technology systems across Africa
Company Details
- Industry: Artificial Intelligence / Voice AI / Speech Technology
- Founded: 2021
- Headquarters: Lagos, Nigeria
- Company Type: Privately Held
- Company Size: 11–50 employees
- Former Name: CDIAL AI
Contact Information
- Address: 20 Chief M. I. Okoro Avenue, Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
- Email: privacy@indigenius.ai
- Phone Number: +234 812 498 4324
- Website: https://indigenius.ai
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