The only AI that speaks the way Nigerians actually speak
A caller says "E joo, I need my order status." Maraba hears Yoruba, switches, and answers — without pausing, without prompting, without dropping the call.
Hausa · Igbo · Yoruba · English — including mid-sentence switching
Every call,
answered.
Every language.
ENYOHAIG
— AI call answering for Nigerian businesses in Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and English
Meet Maraba — the AI receptionist for Nigerian businesses. She answers missed calls in English, Yoruba, Hausa, or Igbo, handles the routine questions your team hears every day, and sends a clean WhatsApp summary after each call. Less phone-tag. Faster follow-up.
5,000+ Nigerian businesses · 2.1M calls answered · 98.4% answer rate · clinics, restaurants, logistics, pharmacies across Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt
Live call · handling
00:42
MA
Maraba speaking
latency 0.8s
What Maraba does on every call
<1.2s
Answer time
<60s
WhatsApp summary
4/4
Languages live
100%
After-hours cover
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How it works
Set Up Your AI Receptionist in Under 10 Minutes
Connect a number, point Maraba at your calendar, and start taking calls. No code, no call-centre setup, no scripts to babysit.
01
Forward your line
Port your existing number or claim a new +234. Maraba picks up on the first ring.
02
Pick her languages
Toggle EN, YO, HA, IG. Maraba code-switches mid-sentence the way your callers actually speak.
03
Connect WhatsApp
Every call lands as a clean WhatsApp summary within 60 seconds — caller, what they wanted, what to do next. Your team can act before the customer gets impatient.
04
Go live
Watch calls roll in on your dashboard. Listen in, take over, or let Maraba run the whole show.
chapter iv · pricing
Pricing in Naira.
Paystack billing. ₦0.50/sec PAYG on overflow. Cancel anytime.
free
₦0/mo
// for evaluation, not production
- 50 calls / month
- 4 languages
- WhatsApp summary
- limited beta spots
starter
₦20,000/mo
// recommended for small teams
- 200 calls / month
- mid-sentence switching
- dashboard analytics
- email support
pro
₦65,000/mo
// for production volume
- 1,000 calls / month
- recordings & transcripts
- webhooks & api access
- priority support
Priced in Naira
No USD conversion. No card surprises. Billed in Naira, paid via Paystack. What you see is what you pay.
₦0
to start · limited beta spots
The problem we fix / 01
Every missed call is a customer
already dialling your competitor.
Maraba picks up in four languages
ENYOHAIG
sends a WhatsApp summary,
and never says "please hold."
Built in Lagos for businesses that actually pick up.
EST. 2026 · Maraba / Maraba v2.4 · LAGOS, NIGERIA
Post-call intelligence
Every call summarised in under 60 seconds and delivered to WhatsApp — caller name, intent, sentiment, and next action.
Maraba · Call Summary
Caller Mrs. Adeyemi · +234 ···· 8821
Intent BOOKING
Sentiment POSITIVE
Action: Confirm appointment Fri 3pm ✓
No closing time
Your callers don't know your closing time. Maraba doesn't have one — she answers at 2am the same way she answers at 9am.
11:47pm
Active call
Your brand, your voice
Maraba answers as your business — your name, your tone, your personality. Fully configurable, no code required.
Agent name
Speedy Dispatch Helpline
Greeting
"Thank you for calling Speedy Dispatch…"
Train once, answer always
Paste in your menu, FAQs, and policies. Maraba gives every caller the same correct answer, every time.
delivery-faq.pdfTRAINED
menu-april-2026.txtTRAINED
Capabilities
Everything Maraba does, out of the box.
Six modules that ship on day one. Toggle the ones you need — Maraba adapts to your business without a re-deploy.
Voice
Conversational AI agent
Sub-300ms responses, natural turn-taking, and barge-in handling. Your callers won't know it's a bot.
Configure
Live
Hello
Ẹ káàsán
Sannu
Nnọọ
Languages
Speaks four, code-switches
EN, YO, HA, IG. Maraba detects the caller's language mid-sentence and switches the way real Nigerians speak.
Toggle
Live
Analytics
Call intelligence
Intent, sentiment, language, and outcome on every call. Searchable transcripts. Exportable reports.
View
Live
How Maraba understands your language
Built on Nigerian language AI — not adapted from it.
Maraba runs on Maraba's purpose-built Nigerian language AI — proprietary speech recognition for Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, and English trained on telephone-quality audio from Nigerian callers. Unlike generic models trained on American or British English, Maraba's Hausa speech-to-text and Yoruba speech recognition are tuned for the accents, vocabulary, and cadence of real Nigerian conversations.
The result is natural mid-sentence code-switching support — when a caller moves from Hausa to English and back again, Maraba follows without missing a word. Language detection is automatic on every call. No configuration required.
Infrastructure
Built for Nigerian Networks — Callers Never Wait.
Maraba is built for Nigerian voice traffic, with regional failover, queue handling during spikes, and privacy controls that fit teams operating in regulated environments.
- Regional failover design — built for resilience
- Fast conversational turn-taking — tuned for live calls
- Queueing and callback support — during busy periods
- NDPR-aware privacy controls — for customer data
- Signed webhooks and audit trails
NDPR Compliant · Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023
Privacy controls, data export tools, and customer audit trails for teams that need operational accountability.
End-to-end encrypted · NDPR Article 2.1 compliant · In-country residency · 30-day deletion on request
What Maraba delivers
Where Maraba helps most: busy teams, repeated questions, missed follow-up.
From a clinic in Lekki to a logistics depot in Apapa, Maraba keeps the line moving when your human team is already stretched.
24/7
After-hours coverage
when your team is offline
when your team is offline
<60s
WhatsApp summary
for faster follow-up
for faster follow-up
4
Languages with
live code-switch support
live code-switch support
Lagos
Abuja
Port Harcourt
Developers
An API that thinks in calls, not endpoints.
Spin up a Nigerian voice agent in minutes — Python or JavaScript. Stream transcripts across all four Nigerian languages, intercept turns, and route handoffs to your own systems.
TypeScript & Python SDKs COMING SOON
First-party clients for Python and JavaScript/TypeScript — full types, async support, and streaming primitives.
Sandbox numbers, free
Test +234 lines that route to your dev environment. Unlimited calls, no charges.
Replayable webhooks
Every event is replayable from the dashboard. Inspect, retry, debug — no flaky tests.
import requests
headers = {"X-API-Key": "ori_live_..."}
base = "https://api.maraba.ai/api/developer/v1"
# Transcribe a call recording in any Nigerian language
with open("call.wav", "rb") as f:
resp = requests.post(
f"{base}/stt/",
headers=headers,
files={"audio": f},
)
data = resp.json()
print(data["transcript"], data["language"])
import FormData from "form-data";
import fetch from "node-fetch";
import fs from "fs";
// Transcribe a call recording in any Nigerian language
const form = new FormData();
form.append("audio", fs.createReadStream("call.wav"));
const resp = await fetch(
"https://api.maraba.ai/api/developer/v1/stt/",
{ method: "POST", headers: { "X-API-Key": "ori_live_...",
...form.getHeaders() }, body: form }
);
const { transcript, language } = await resp.json();
console.log(transcript, language);
curl -X POST \
https://api.maraba.ai/api/developer/v1/stt/ \
-H "X-API-Key: ori_live_..." \
-F "audio=@call.wav"
# Response
{
"transcript": "Ẹ káàárọ̀, mo fẹ́...",
"language": "yo",
"confidence": 0.97,
"duration_seconds": 8.4
}
Webhook · call.completed
live
{
"id": "call_8FzKq",
"type": "call.completed",
"caller": "+2348023*****",
"language": "yo→en",
"intent": "booking",
"sentiment": 0.82,
"booked": true,
"duration_ms": 94320
}
From the blog
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Guide
How to set up an AI receptionist for your Lagos clinic in under 10 minutes
A step-by-step walkthrough — from signing up to your first live call answered by Maraba in Hausa or English.
Explainer
Why Nigerian AI must be trained on Nigerian voices — not adapted from US models
The accuracy gap between generic English ASR and purpose-built Yoruba/Hausa speech recognition on telephone-quality audio.
Case Study
How a Port Harcourt pharmacy cut missed calls by 80% with Maraba
Before Maraba, the pharmacy missed 6 in 10 calls during peak hours. After: every call answered, in Igbo and English.