Bringing African languages to life

Powering developers and enterprises. From real-time Kinyarwanda–English translation to speech-to-text, the developer platform for African language AI.

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Why Mateza

One API for African language translation

Everything you need to ship language features, from real-time translation to batch processing and custom glossaries.

Built for Kinyarwanda

Purpose-built models for Kinyarwanda–English pairs. Project-scoped glossaries for domain-specific accuracy.

Real-time Translation

Sub-second API responses with quality-scored output on every request.

API-first

Simple REST API with JSON payloads and standard bearer auth. One endpoint, predictable responses.

Developer Ready

Batch translation (up to 50 per request), request logging, usage tracking, and API key management.

16 Languages

Growing support for African languages — starting with Kinyarwanda and expanding across the continent.

Enterprise Grade

Full audit logging, rate limiting, and project isolation for production workloads.

Developer API

Or build anything with
a powerful API

Three steps to translated text. Send your text, choose languages, get the translation with quality scores and latency metrics.

Request
curl -X POST https://api.mateza.us/api/v1/translate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer mtz_live_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "text": "Hello, how are you?",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "target_lang": "rw",
    "project_id": "prj_..."
  }'
JSONResponse
{
  "translation": "Muraho, amakuru?",
  "source_lang": "en",
  "target_lang": "rw",
  "latency_ms": 142,
  "quality_score": 0.94,
  "model": "mateza-v2"
}

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< 500ms

Average latency

50

Batch items per request

16

Languages supported

99.9%

API uptime

Safety, built in

Responsible AI practices at every layer of the platform.

Data Privacy

Your data is never used for training. All requests are encrypted in transit and at rest.

Transparency

Quality scores and model metadata returned with every translation response.

Open Research

Built on open-source foundations with published evaluation benchmarks for Kinyarwanda.

The most accurate Kinyarwanda AI platform

Start building with Mateza

Ship language features into production with a single REST endpoint.