The AI audio newsroom

Intelligence that gives news a voice

A premium AI suite built for newspaper publishers across Africa and the world — turn every printed page into lifelike, personalized, multilingual audio your readers love.

40+

Languages & dialects ready for narration

<10s

From publish to fully narrated edition

100%

Of articles auto-voiced, zero studio time

3x

Average lift in time-on-content vs text

Voice

Sound that feels human

Studio-quality narration in any voice and any language — the foundation of the audio-first newsroom.

Studio-grade TTS

AI Voice Narration

Every article rendered into broadcast-quality audio in seconds, with natural prosody, breaths, and emphasis that rivals a human anchor.

  • Auto-narrate full editions on publish
  • Pronunciation lexicons for names & places
  • Request stitching for seamless long reads
Voice library

Multiple Voice Choices

Listeners pick a voice that fits their mood — warm, authoritative, conversational — and publishers can clone a signature brand voice.

  • Curated persona library per region
  • Publisher-branded custom voice cloning
  • Adjustable speed, tone & energy
Africa-first, global-ready

Local-Language Narration

Translate and narrate every edition into the languages your readers actually speak — from Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba and Amharic to French, Arabic, Portuguese and beyond.

  • On-the-fly translation + narration
  • Dialect-aware pronunciation
  • One edition, dozens of language tracks

Intelligence

The right story, the right moment

AI that understands your content and each listener — summarized, briefed, and personalized automatically.

Listen smarter

AI Article Summaries

Auto-generated TL;DR audio for every story with selectable depth — 30-second headline, 1-minute brief, or 3-minute deep dive.

  • Headline / brief / deep-dive modes
  • Key-point chapter markers
  • Skim-by-ear navigation
Your morning anchor

AI Daily Briefing

A personalized podcast-style briefing that stitches the day's top stories into one seamless listen with intro, transitions and outro.

  • Time-of-day editions (AM / midday / PM)
  • Weather, markets & sports inserts
  • Auto-delivered to each listener
Spotify for news

Personalized Playlist

A continuously updated queue tuned to each listener's interests, listening history, and available time — press play and lean back.

  • Interest & behaviour modelling
  • “I have 10 minutes” smart queues
  • Cross-edition discovery
Discovery engine

Smart Recommendations

Surface the next perfect story using semantic embeddings, trending signals, and what similar listeners are loving right now.

  • Semantic article matching
  • “Because you listened to…”
  • Editor-weighted ranking controls

Interactive

Conversation, not just consumption

Listeners search, ask, and explore by voice — and publishers get an open pipeline to voice anything.

Hands-free

Voice Search

Speak to find any story across every edition — “play the latest on the election” — and start listening instantly.

  • Natural-language queries
  • Spoken results & playback
  • Great for driving & low-literacy access
Ask the paper

Edition AI Chatbot

Every edition ships with a grounded chatbot that answers questions, explains context, and cites the exact articles it drew from.

  • Grounded in that day's content
  • Source-cited, no hallucinations
  • Voice or text conversation
Publisher API

Text-to-Speech Generation

An open TTS pipeline publishers can call to voice newsletters, alerts and breaking-news pushes — anywhere, on demand.

  • REST API & webhooks
  • Breaking-news instant audio
  • Bring-your-own voice support

Built for publishers who want to own audio

From a single local daily to a national title, Vocal News makes every edition listenable, multilingual, and intelligent — without building an AI team.