LOBAKA FlexAvailable as a pilot
Start a session, pay as you go
Pick a product, create the session, share the QR code. Koris are used according to actual usage.
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LOBAKA · Algiers
Everyone should hear what is said, in their own language.
LOBAKA carries an interpreter's voice, a guide's voice or a film's audio track to the phone of every person in the audience. No receivers to hand out, no app to install, no account needed to listen.
In the room, with a code or a QR code? Join a session
Sasa, Pamoja and Picha are open as pilots, with LOBAKA Flex and LOBAKA Events. Zando is opening gradually, starting with Algiers.
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FrançaisRoom audio
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EnglishInterpreter
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العربيةInterpreter
Why LOBAKA
What changes in the room.
Nothing to hand out
The audience listens on their own phone, with their own earphones. No more receivers to hand out.
Nothing to install
A QR code or a session code opens the audio in the browser: no app, no account needed to listen.
Everyone hears their language
Each person picks a channel and can switch at any time, without the audio stopping.
Human voices
Channels carry the voice of your interpreters, your guide or your film's tracks. LOBAKA translates nothing: it carries the voice.
Products
Three products, three situations.
Each product starts from a specific situation. This is what the people using it see in the app.
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Interpreter
Participant
Example: a congress in three languages. Screenshots of the LOBAKA Sasa app, with demo data. LOBAKA Sasa Available as a pilot
Organizing an event in several languages?
One room. Several languages.
Your interpreters' voices, live, on every participant's phone. No more receivers to hand out.
For Congresses, conferences, embassies, universities, places of worship
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Guide
Visitor
Example: a guided tour. Screenshots of the LOBAKA Pamoja app, with demo data. LOBAKA Pamoja Available as a pilot
Leading a group or a tour?
The guide speaks. The group stays connected.
Every participant hears the guide on their own phone, even when they drift away from the group for a moment.
For Guides, agencies, museums, historic sites
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Projection
Viewer
Example: the no-account trial, with “Le clap”. Screenshots of the LOBAKA Picha app, with demo data. LOBAKA Picha Available as a pilot
Screening a film or a video?
One picture. Several audio experiences.
One screening, several synchronized audio tracks: other languages, original version, audio description.
For Cinemas, festivals, cultural institutes, open-air
Organiser accounts are opened on request during pilots. Listening never needs an account.
How it works
One voice comes in. Everyone picks a channel.
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The voice comes in
An interpreter's voice, a guide's voice, or a film's audio track. LOBAKA translates nothing: it carries the voice.
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It goes out on a channel
One channel per language, per group or per track. Several channels run side by side in the same session.
- FR
- EN
- AR
- KAB
- SW
- LN
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The audience listens on their phones
Everyone scans a QR code, picks a channel and listens through their earphones. The browser is enough: no app, no account.
The organizer creates and pays for the session. Participants pay nothing to listen.
Quality
Rehearsed before it reaches your room
Before every release, we replay a conference, a guided tour, a screening and a booking, right up to the sound that reaches the phone.
Use LOBAKA
Two ways to use LOBAKA.
The product says what you use. The mode says how.
LOBAKA EventsAvailable as a pilot
Plan an event, combine the products
A congress, an open day, a festival: one event that can bring Sasa, Pamoja and Picha together, planned with your team.
Discover Events →
Around the products
A market, and a usage unit.
Zando, the LOBAKA marketOpening gradually
- Zando Services: find an interpreter, a translator, a guide or an audio describer. Zero commission.
- LOBAKA Shop: Koris, kits and goods, sold by LOBAKA.
KorisAlready in place
The usage unit of Sasa, Pamoja and Picha. They sit in your account's wallet and are used according to actual usage.
Understand Koris →
Human interpretation, AI later
Today, interpreters do the translating.
People ask us this a lot, so here is the answer up front.
Today
Human interpreters, streamed by Sasa.
Every language channel is produced by an interpreter. Sasa takes their voice and streams it live to participants' phones. Sasa does not translate anything itself.
Later
Automated voice capabilities, later.
LOBAKA is working on transcription, translation and speech synthesis. These capabilities are not part of today's offering and no date has been announced. They will come on top of human interpretation, on the same infrastructure.
Accessibility
More accessible audio experiences.
Accessibility is not a separate product: it is one more channel, in each product.
The founder
Moïse B. Selph
Moïse B. Selph founded LOBAKA in Algiers. He presents the news and the Africa Tech programme on Ifrikya FM, where he follows what digital technology is changing across the continent.
Born in Algiers and rooted in an African vision, LOBAKA carries its Congolese origin in its name: “lobaka” means “speak” in Lingala. The name sums up the project: everyone should hear what is being said, in their own language.
His work on moisebselph.com (opens in a new tab)LOBA OLGAInitiative
Preserving voices. Connecting generations.
LOBA OLGA is an initiative led by LOBAKA around preserving voices, languages and stories, and passing them on from one generation to the next.
Field evidence
Results will come from real rooms, not from this website.
No pilot results are published yet. Every result shown here will be published with the agreement of the organization concerned, and with real data:
- pilot organizations and venues tested
- events and languages
- number of sessions and participants
- feedback from participants and interpreters
Want to be one of the first rooms?
Sasa, Pamoja and Picha are available as pilots. Zando is opening gradually.