Built in South Africa

AI meeting transcription for South African teams

English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa or Northern Sotho. Turn your meetings into searchable transcripts, clear summaries and professional minutes, with Rand pricing and a team that calls South Africa home.

South African by design

Many languages.
One conversation.

The language may change. The thread of the meeting shouldn’t. Capture South African English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, isiXhosa and Sepedi, then turn the conversation into notes your team can use.

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Built here. Connected everywhere.ZA · NOTEWAVE

Multilingual

English & local languages

Keep the conversation in its original language.

ZAR

South African Rand pricing

Choose a plan with pricing in Rand.

Live + upload

Two ways to capture

Record a meeting or upload existing audio.

PDF + Word

Professional meeting minutes

Take an editable draft into your next meeting.

The engine behind the conversation

Global speech recognition.
A local way of working.

NoteWave is an AI meeting assistant for South African teams, with transcription across 99+ languages. Turn meeting audio into searchable transcripts, AI summaries, decisions, action items and professional meeting minutes in one workspace.

Clear audio makes a difference. Review names, local terminology and key decisions before sharing your meeting notes.

Follow the detail

Timestamps tied to the transcript

35:12

Follow the speakers

Speaker labels in multi-person meetings

Up to

32

Dedicated local dialect mapping.

A practical meeting workflow for South African languages and accents. Select the spoken language or use automatic language detection for multilingual recordings.

af-ZA

Afrikaans

Afrikaans

TranscriptionSupported
zu-ZA

Zulu

isiZulu

TranscriptionSupported
xh-ZA

Xhosa

isiXhosa

TranscriptionSupported
nso-ZA

Northern Sotho

Sepedi

TranscriptionSupported
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One recording. Endless insights.

Process a meeting once and turn it into a transcript, smart summary, action items, and professional meeting minutes.

ConversationSpeakersDecisionsAction itemsContextKey moments
Workspace
HomeTasksTeams
Workspace snapshot
Team work, at a glance
My queue
06
Team queue
14
Shared spaces
12
Team activity
Created and completed work
Most active: Thursday18 completions this week

One workspace. Perfectly structured.

Share transcripts, organise folders, manage team tasks, and see meeting activity in one connected workspace.

Track every voice seamlessly.

Separate speakers, map key moments, and preserve the context behind every decision without losing meeting clarity.

Meeting clarity
97%
Illustrative score

Example visual. Accuracy varies with language and audio quality.

English. Afrikaans. And everything in between.

Fluid code-switching.
Keep the whole conversation.

Real South African meetings rarely stay in one language. Capture English alongside Afrikaans, Zulu (isiZulu), Xhosa and Northern Sotho, with speaker labels that help you follow the discussion.

From a mixed-language transcript to clear meeting notes, decisions and action items: keep the context as the conversation moves.

Quarterly planning
Illustrative transcript
Thandi00:12

The Q3 targets lyk goed, but we need to revisit the budget.

Johan00:24

Ja nee, ek stem saam. Let’s review it before the next board meeting.

Thandi00:41

Ingxaki yile: the forecast needs review.

EnglishAfrikaansisiXhosa
From conversation to follow-up

Review the budget and forecast before the next board meeting.

A South African team.
A considered local product.

Local language support is part of the picture. Pricing, privacy and the way your team works matter too.

Local language support

Transcribe Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa and Northern Sotho alongside English, including multilingual conversations.

Built in South Africa

Designed and operated by Blaze AI Solutions (Pty) Ltd, a South African registered company.

Transparent ZAR pricing

Compare Free, Pro and Business plans with South African Rand pricing before you choose.

Clear privacy practices

Understand how meeting data is handled, retained and protected through our privacy policy and POPIA information.

Speaker identification

Follow who said what with speaker labels and timestamps. Review and rename speakers as you work through the transcript.

Global reach, local perspective

Bring international colleagues into the same workflow with multilingual transcription and a South African product team.

How local accuracyreshapes South African meeting notes.

From Afrikaans and Zulu code-switching to pricing in Rand, NoteWave brings multilingual transcription into a workflow shaped around South African meetings.

Keep the original conversation close as you review a summary, check a decision or prepare the next set of minutes.

EnglishAfrikaansisiZuluisiXhosaSepedi
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Built for the way South Africa meets.

One conversation. A clear path from the recording to the document your team takes forward.

Keep the words and the context.

Work through a searchable transcript with speaker labels and timestamps. Review names and terminology.

Thandi · 00:12

The Q3 targets lyk goed, but we need to revisit the budget.

Illustrative workflow · Select a stage to explore

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Free minutes generator, built for South African meetings.

Paste rough notes and get a structured minutes draft, with formats for a school governing body (SGB) under the Schools Act, a body corporate under the STSMA, a board of directors, a shareholder AGM and an executive committee. Choose English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, isiXhosa or Sepedi. Review your draft, then export to PDF or Word. No sign-up required.

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