AI workspace for the field and the newsroom

Turn any conversation into publish-ready minutes.

Kikaoni records interviews, press conferences and meetings, transcribes them in Kiswahili or English, and drafts the minutes, article or summary — ready for you to edit.

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Editable before export

Recording04:12

Mwanza Secondary School · interviewEN

AI draft · minuteseditable

Attendance: head teacher, class teachers, district officer
Agenda: attendance system, costs, data ownership
Decision: paper fallback written into procedure
Action: district to confirm data ownership in writingaction

SwahiliEnglish3,214 words transcribed

Transcript ready

12 seconds after recording

Minutes, articles and summariesKiswahili and EnglishAudio and video in the browserNo installWorks on a phoneEditable before export

How it works

Three steps. One workspace.

Recording, transcription and drafting live side by side, so you never lose the thread between the conversation and the document.

Record or type

Capture audio or video straight from the browser, or paste the notes you already wrote. No plugin, no upload dance.

Transcribe and understand

Speech becomes a searchable transcript in Kiswahili or English — including the names, places and figures that matter.

Generate and edit

Draft minutes, a news article or a summary, then shape every line before you copy, download or publish.

Built for the work

Simple enough for the field. Strong enough for the newsroom.

Every part of the flow was designed for people who record, write and publish — often on the same phone.

Bilingual by design

Record in Kiswahili, draft in English — or the other way round. The transcript and the output each get their own language, and names stay exactly as they were spoken.

Kiswahili · transcript

“Tulinunua kompyuta kibao kumi na mbili… muhula huu utoro umepungua kutoka arobaini na mmoja hadi kumi na tisa.”

English · minutes

“Chronic absence fell from 41 learners to 19 after same-day guardian calls were introduced.”

Record in the browser

Voice or camera, with a live level meter. Keep the camera on for press conferences, or audio-only for a quieter room.

Structured, not sloppy

Minutes arrive with attendees, agenda, decisions and action points already separated — not one long paragraph.

Attendance

Agenda

Decisions

Action points

AI drafts are editable

Nothing leaves as-is. Edit the transcript, rewrite the draft, then copy or download it as Markdown.

Decision — A paper fallback will be written into the procedure before term two.

Private by default

Recordings are stored on your own server. Transcription and drafting happen behind your API routes, so provider keys never reach the browser and audio never sits in a third-party widget.

Keys stay server-side

Files never in the client bundle

Edit before export

Choose your output

One recording. The document you actually need.

Pick an output, set the language and length, and generate. Each draft is a starting point you can edit line by line.

Minutes

Attendance, agenda, discussion, decisions and action points — structured for circulation, not a wall of text.

Attendance

Head teacher, class teachers, district officer

Agenda

Attendance system, costs, data ownership

Decision

Paper fallback written into procedure

News article

A headline, a lead that answers the five Ws, quotes pulled from the source and the context a newsroom expects.

Headline

Digital attendance cuts chronic absence by half

Lead

A Mwanza school says same-day calls home are...

Quote

“A dashboard does not teach a child.”

Smart summary

Choose short or detailed. Get the essentials, the key points, the decisions and what happens next.

In brief

Twelve tablets, one term, chronic absence halved

Key point

Same-day guardian calls drive the result

Agree data ownership in writing

Generate your first draft

Demo mode works without an API key.

Kiswahili + English

The same session, in either language.

Language is a setting, not an afterthought. Transcribe what was said, then draft in the language your audience reads — without losing the quote you need.

Transcript language and draft language are chosen separately
Names, places and figures are preserved, not translated away
Kiswahili output reads like Kiswahili, not translated English

Session · MwanzaSWEN

Transcript · Kiswahili

“Tulikuwa tukifanya kazi na taarifa za zamani kila wakati. Sasa mwalimu wa darasa anarekodi mahudhurio kwenye kompyuta kibao ndani ya dakika kumi za kwanza.”

draft · English