The "Open G" smartphone can understand commands and respond in 16 of Côte d'Ivoire's approximately 60 spoken languages, such as Diola, Senufo, Dendi, Beté.
The Ivorian smartphone is controlled by an interface similar to voice applications such as Apple's Siri or Yandex's Alice.
The smartphone costs 36,000 CFA francs - about 3,500 roubles at current exchange rates.
Several thousand devices have already been sold.