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Swahili transcription is fully supported

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Swahili (Kiswahili)
Moderate accuracy
Language code
SW
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TurboProStudio
89.8%Studio accuracy*

For Swahili, the most accurate model is worth it

The free model can struggle with Swahili, while Studio, our most accurate model, is far sharper. For a clean Swahili transcript, Studio is the one to use.

Turbo and Pro60.5%Groq Whisper
Studio · most accurate89.8%ElevenLabs Scribe v2

* Accuracy on the FLEURS speech benchmark, where 100% means no word errors. It is the inverse of word error rate (WER).

Writing system

Swahili is written in the Latin alphabet with regular, phonetic spelling. It is a Bantu language with many Arabic loanwords and is the lingua franca of East Africa.

Dialects

Standard Swahili is based on the Zanzibar (Kiunguja) dialect; coastal and inland varieties differ in vocabulary and pronunciation.

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bio-101-lecture.mp31:12:04

00:00Alright everyone, let's pick up where we left off last week on cellular respiration.

00:11The mitochondrion is the site of cellular respiration, where most of the cell’s ATP is produced.

00:24Remember, ATP is the energy currency - basically every process in the cell pays for it.

00:37The inner membrane folds inward into structures we call cristae.

00:46Those folds dramatically increase the surface area available for the reactions.

00:58More surface area means more electron transport chains, and that means more ATP.

01:12There are three stages: glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation.

01:25Be able to tell glycolysis and the Krebs cycle apart - that is a common exam trap.

01:38We go deeper into the electron transport chain Thursday, so read chapter nine first.

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