Inzwi

The people
building it.

Three of us. We record, review and train — and most weeks all three of those happen on the same day.

Nigel Ephraim Basarokwe

Founder · Operations engineering

Started Inzwi as a final-year computer science project at Midlands State University and kept building. Owns the collection platform, the data pipeline and the infrastructure the rest of it runs on.

Tadiwanashe Njimaima

AI engineer

Works on the speech models — fine-tuning the recognisers, and building the evaluation that says whether a change actually helped rather than just moved a number.

Thabelo Dumani

Ndebele lead

Leads isiNdebele: prompt design, dialect coverage and review, so Ndebele is collected and trained as its own language rather than adapted from Shona.

Join us

Linguists, engineers, voice talent

If you speak Shona or Ndebele and want to work on the systems that will have to understand them, tell us what you would want to build.

hello@inzwi.app