Djelia

Djelia is an API for African languages. Today that means Bambara (Bamanankan), spoken by roughly 15 million people in Mali and across West Africa: speech to text, text to speech, and translation between Bambara, French and English.

Djelia speaks OpenAI

Djelia implements the OpenAI API format, making integration simple. Most OpenAI clients work out of the box—just update your API key, base URL, and model name.

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["DJELIA_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://api.djelia.cloud/openai/v1",
)

response = client.audio.speech.create(
    model="jifili-1",
    input="Aw ni ce, i ka kene wa?",
    voice="moussa",
)
response.write_to_file("hello.mp3")

This means you can use the official OpenAI SDKs exactly as they are, in every language they support. All tools and frameworks built on top of these SDKs (such as LiteLLM, LangChain, the Vercel AI SDK, n8n, Dify, and Open WebUI) work seamlessly with Djelia.

Get started with the quickstart ->

Available Models

Capability	Endpoint	Model
Speech to text	`POST /audio/transcriptions`	`sunjata-1`
Speech translation	`POST /audio/translations`	`sunjata-1`
Text to speech	`POST /audio/speech`	`jifili-1`
Text translation	`POST /chat/completions`	`banjugu-1`

See the Models page for supported languages, voices, and output formats. Coming from the native API or a djelia-*-v* model? See the migration guide.

Djelia speaks OpenAI​

Available Models​

Djelia speaks OpenAI

Available Models