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.
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.