The transcription stack that runs where your data has to stay.
Makimoto Kawa is an MIT-licensed transcription pipeline with managed APIs for real-time and post-call workloads. Hosted in Singapore from 1 July 2026, with country-specific deployments and a self-hostable release to follow.
What is Kawa?
Kawa is a transcription pipeline with Makimoto's own Speech-to-text (STT) model. Makimoto has one managed API, for post-call workloads like recorded calls and batch analytics. It runs a five-stage pipeline: audio resampling, voice activity detection, speaker diarisation, noise filtering, speech-to-text, and post-processing functions of summarisation and tagging.
Why Build with Makimoto
Build Faster
Production-ready APIs for transcription, summarisation and conversational AI.
Built For Real-World Conversations
Accents, multilingual speech and code-switching aren't edge cases.
Open By Design
Open-core architecture, transparent tooling and community-driven development.
Kawa is live
Kawa's post-conversation transcription API is live as of 1 July 2026. Built for recorded calls, voicemail, and large-scale analysis of archived customer interactions: submit an audio recording, retrieve a completed transcript with speaker separation and segment-level timestamps.
Each account includes a free monthly allowance of 1,000 minutes. The playground runs the same endpoints as production, so what you test is what you ship. A real-time transcription API for live voice agents and captioning follows as a subsequent release.
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