Sunflower ASR · Swahili

Sunbird AI

Swahili speech to text.

Pilot betaInvited workspaces · Cape Town, South Africa

Clear usage rates.

Audio minute< UGX 50per minute

Introductory pilot rates · UGX

Audio is rounded up to whole seconds. The introductory minute rate is equivalent to 60 seconds.

A little head start.

90 days of lower rates.

No platform subscription fee. Pay for your usage, within your approved pilot limits.

How the pilot offer works

Rates apply for 90 days from activation in an approved workspace. Rates and usage limits are confirmed before paid use.

Introductory rates are active for new requests, including existing workspaces. Historical usage keeps its original rates. Billing shows your configured rates; no automatic payments.

We’ll give at least 30 days’ notice of changes after your introductory period. Access is invite-only and subject to scheduled compute capacity. USD is the pricing base; local equivalents are approximate.

Check your workspace’s active rates →

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Requires an invited account and a key enabled for this model.

What you can build.

Capabilities available in the Embiro pilot.

InputAudio

OutputText

Swahili transcription
Optimised African-language model
JSON or plain-text transcripts

Know the limits.

Language: Swahili (sw); defaults to sw when omitted
Audio: Mono PCM16 WAV at 16 kHz, up to 60 seconds
Processing: Offline beta; review transcripts for errors

Full pilot service notes

Swahili (sw) only in this beta; omitted language defaults to sw. Mono PCM16 WAV at 16 kHz, up to 60 seconds. Optimised offline transcription; rounded up to whole seconds. Review transcripts for errors.

Requests share your workspace’s allowance, rate limit and concurrency limit. Compute runs in scheduled sessions; model access does not guarantee immediate capacity.

Make your first request.

Use a server-side workspace API key from Platform → API keys. Examples use https://api.embiro.ai/v1 and the exact pilot model ID.

API model IDsunflower-asr-sw

POST/v1/audio/transcriptions

Prepare clip.wav as mono PCM16 WAV at 16 kHz, up to 60 seconds. This pilot supports Swahili (sw) only.

# Set EMBIRO_API_KEY in your shell first.
: "${EMBIRO_API_KEY:?Set your workspace API key first}"
curl --fail-with-body --silent --show-error "https://api.embiro.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EMBIRO_API_KEY" \
  -F "model=sunflower-asr-sw" \
  -F "language=sw" \
  -F "response_format=json" \
  -F "file=@clip.wav;type=audio/wav"

What comes back

A transcript in text. Silent audio may return an empty transcript.

Cold starts, errors and safe retries

Use the Queued job example when a request can wait for compute. Save its ID and poll that job.
For 401/403, check the key and its model permissions. For 400, check the request and format limits.
Respect Retry-After on 429/503. A timeout after dispatch can be ambiguous; check request logs before submitting again.
These examples do not automatically retry paid work. A job retry must reuse the saved idempotency key and identical payload.

Open API reference

Under the hood.

Publisher specifications. These do not override the Embiro service limits above.

Published context: Not specified
Parameters: 1.55B
Model size: Light

Swahili-only pilot using the current checkpoint in optimised int8_float16. Mono PCM16 WAV at 16 kHz, up to 60 seconds. Review transcripts for errors.

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