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AuTrans for NGOs and Development Organisations

Field recordings, community consultations and monitoring interviews turned into searchable text and summaries — in the languages your beneficiaries actually speak.

A programme manager or an M&E lead, usually spending against a specific grant with reporting obligations attached. Finance will want an invoice that names what it was for.

What this looks like today

  • Field interviews come back in Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo or Pidgin and sit untranscribed because nobody has time
  • Programme staff double as translators, which is slow and pulls them off the actual programme
  • Donor reports need direct beneficiary quotes, and finding them means re-listening to hours of recordings
  • Monitoring and evaluation data is trapped in audio, so it never makes it into the analysis
  • Grant budgets can't absorb per-minute transcription rates across a whole field season

What changes

  • Field recordings become searchable text within the same day, so consultations feed the report they were collected for
  • The Nigerian languages your field teams actually record in are supported directly
  • AI summaries and action items pull the themes out of a long community consultation without anyone re-listening
  • Speaker separation keeps a focus group readable — who said what, not one undifferentiated wall of text
  • Search across every transcript at once, so a quote about one theme can be found across a whole field season
  • A pooled hour allowance covers a whole programme team rather than being licensed per person

Procurement, data and contracts

  • Invoiced annually so it can sit as one line in a grant budget, rather than a card charge somebody has to keep justifying
  • Beneficiary audio is never used to train AI models — the commitment that matters most when the recordings are of vulnerable people
  • View-only sharing means a donor or a partner can read a transcript without being given an account
  • Transcripts and recordings can be deleted on request, including the data derived from them
  • We will sign your data protection and safeguarding agreements
  • If a specific grant needs a specific allowance for a fixed period, we set it on the account directly

Frequently asked questions

Our field recordings are in several Nigerian languages. Does that work?

Yes. Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and Nigerian Pidgin are supported directly, along with Nigerian-accented English. A recording where a facilitator asks in English and a participant answers in Pidgin is handled as one file rather than needing to be split.

Can we delete beneficiary recordings after a programme ends?

Yes, and deletion removes the transcript and the derived data along with the recording, not just the audio file. If your safeguarding policy requires deletion within a set window, tell us the window.

Is the audio used to improve your product?

Audio is never used for training. Where we do improve the product from customer data it is text-based, opt-in, and set at the account level — so an institutional account can simply have it off.

How do we budget for this in a grant?

Tell us the expected hours of audio over the grant period and we will quote a fixed annual figure against it, invoiced so it reads clearly as a line item. We price against your actual volume rather than a published tier, so the quote reflects what you will really use.

Can field staff use it on a phone with poor connectivity?

Recordings are made however you already make them — a phone voice memo is fine — and uploaded when there is a connection. Transcription happens on our side, so the device does not need to be online while it runs.

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Tell us your volume and we'll quote

Roughly how many hours of audio a year, and in which languages. We price against that rather than a published tier. You can also start on the free plan first and run your own recordings through it before anyone raises a purchase order.

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