THE OPPORTUNITY
Millions of Africans bank by phone. Most hear a robot or a busy tone.
Africa's financial institutions handle millions of customer calls every month. Loan reminders, balance inquiries, payment confirmations, product offers. Most of these calls are made manually by overstretched staff, or not made at all. The banks that do automate use voice systems built for American English, systems that mispronounce Nigerian names, misunderstand Pidgin-inflected speech, and sound nothing like the communities they serve.
Deylegen exists to close that gap. We build voice AI that sounds African, understands African languages, and serves African financial institutions at scale.
TECHNOLOGY
Proprietary voice models, not API wrappers
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Nigerian English Voice Synthesis
Text-to-speech trained on Nigerian English across Yoruba-inflected, Hausa-inflected, and Igbo-inflected accent groups. A voice that pronounces Nigerian names correctly and speaks with the cadence your customers expect.
02
Real-Time Speech Recognition
Speech-to-text fine-tuned for African phone calls: Nigerian accents, Pidgin-inflected speech, code-switching, and GSM audio compression. Runs in real-time with intelligent end-of-turn detection.
03
Sub-800ms Conversation Pipeline
From the moment a customer finishes speaking to the moment they hear a response: under 800 milliseconds. Faster than a natural conversational pause.
PRODUCT
AI agents that make and receive calls for your bank
Inbound Agent
When your customers call, the agent picks up instantly and answers questions about balances, repayment dates, loan products, and branch information. When she cannot resolve something, she hands off to your staff with the full conversation context.
Outbound Agent
The agent calls borrowers before repayment is due, follows up on missed payments, and works through prospect lists to acquire new customers. Every call is a revenue opportunity your staff don't have time to make.
TRACTION
In production. Not in a pitch deck.
Deylegen is actively deployed with financial institutions across Abuja, Nigeria. Our AI agents handle customer acquisition campaigns, loan recovery outreach, and inbound customer service for banks ranging from single-branch microfinance institutions to national banks with 100+ branches.
Multiple MFBs
Deployed across microfinance banks in Wuse and Garki, Abuja
Board-level adoption
Presented to and approved by bank boards of directors
National scale pipeline
In discussions with institutions operating 100+ branches across 36 Nigerian states