Tagalog
Tagalog AI Receptionist
Give your Filipino customers and their families a warm, polite answer, even when your team is flat out. Our AI receptionist talks in Tagalog, English or Taglish, answers questions, takes messages, books appointments and puts callers through to your staff.
- Speaks Tagalog and English
- Answers 24/7
Tagalog call
JoyManila Tagalog accentCaller
Hello po, good morning. Gusto ko po sanang mag-book ng visit para sa lola ko this Saturday.
Hello, good morning. I'd like to book a visit for my grandmother this Saturday.
Joy
Magandang umaga po! Sige po. Anong oras po ang gusto ninyo sa Sabado?
Good morning! Of course. What time would you like on Saturday?
Caller
Mga alas-dos po ng hapon, okay lang po ba?
Around two in the afternoon, is that okay?
What is a Tagalog AI receptionist?
A Tagalog AI receptionist answers your business phone in Tagalog, English or a natural mix of both, so callers can book, ask a question or leave a message without waiting.
Waboom AI's Tagalog agent is Joy, a female voice with a Manila Tagalog accent who uses po and opo with every caller. Built for businesses across New Zealand and Australia.
Answering and making calls for businesses across New Zealand and Australia
Try our Tagalog AI receptionist
Talk to Joy in English, Tagalog or Taglish. Mix both languages freely, even inside one sentence, and she follows you.
Multilingual receptionistJoy
Manila Tagalog accent
Mix Tagalog and English, she follows you.
Your own AI receptionist is set up around your business: opening hours, services, bookings and how calls are passed to your staff.
Where Tagalog-language phone answering helps
When callers can speak the way they do at home, in Tagalog, English or both, booking a visit or leaving a message is easier.
Aged care and nursing
Families calling about visiting times, a resident's wellbeing or a message for the nurse on shift. Joy answers in Tagalog or Taglish, books visits, reads the caller's number back and passes anything personal or clinical to your staff.
Medical and health clinics
Appointment requests, changes, opening hours and directions in Tagalog or English. Clinical questions go to your qualified staff, never to the AI.
Restaurants and hospitality
Table bookings, function enquiries and opening hours, answered in Taglish while your team is busy on the floor.
Construction and trades
Quote requests, job bookings and site messages for builders, electricians and plumbers. The receptionist takes the address and job details and books a callback.
Retail and customer service
Order questions, opening hours, delivery updates and messages for the team, answered politely in Tagalog or English.
How we set up your Tagalog AI receptionist
Three steps. We do the heavy lifting.
Tell us about your callers
Which languages they speak, what they call about, and what a good call ends with: a booking, a message or a transfer.
We build and test it in Tagalog
Your greeting, hours, services and booking rules in English and Tagalog, tested on calls with your own names and places.
Go live on your number
Forward your existing number. Every call comes with a transcript and summary, and we keep improving it.
What makes Tagalog-language calls different?
Speaking Tagalog well on the phone takes more than translating English sentences.
Taglish is welcome
Filipino callers often move between Tagalog and English without thinking about it, often inside one sentence: "Gusto ko po mag-book ng appointment." In our tests the receptionist heard Tagalog and English together in one call and followed callers who mixed them freely, and it answers in the same natural mix.
Po and opo
Politeness is built into Tagalog through po and opo. We set Joy to use them with every caller, and to address older callers respectfully, so families calling an aged care home or a clinic feel looked after.
Tagalog, not every Philippine language
Joy speaks Tagalog with a Manila accent. Bisaya (Cebuano) and Ilocano are different languages and are not supported. Callers from the Visayas or northern Luzon can still use Tagalog or English, and we run test calls with your own callers before go-live.
Numbers in English and Spanish-style times
Filipino callers often give phone numbers in English and times the Spanish-derived way, such as "alas-dos" for two o'clock. In our tests a couple of digits were misheard, so the receptionist reads every number and time back and waits for "opo" before saving it.
An example call in Tagalog
A family member books a visit at an aged care home in Taglish and the agent reads her number back. Illustrative example, not a recording.
Caller
Hello po, good morning. Gusto ko po sanang mag-book ng visit para sa lola ko this Saturday.
Hello, good morning. I'd like to book a visit for my grandmother this Saturday.
Joy
Magandang umaga po! Sige po. Anong oras po ang gusto ninyo sa Sabado?
Good morning! Of course. What time would you like on Saturday?
Caller
Mga alas-dos po ng hapon, okay lang po ba?
Around two in the afternoon, is that okay?
Joy
Opo, available po ang alas-dos. Ano po ang pangalan ninyo, ang pangalan ng resident, at ang inyong phone number?
Yes, two o'clock is available. May I have your name, the resident's name and your phone number?
Caller
Ako po si Maricel Santos, para kay Lola Rosario Cruz. Ang number ko po ay zero two one, four five six, seven eight nine.
I'm Maricel Santos, visiting Rosario Cruz. My number is 021 456 789.
Joy
Salamat po, Maricel. Uulitin ko lang po ang number: zero two one, four five six, seven eight nine. Tama po ba?
Thank you, Maricel. Let me read the number back: 021 456 789. Is that correct?
Caller
Opo, tama po.
Yes, that's correct.
Joy
Naka-book na po ang visit ninyo kay Lola Rosario sa Sabado, alas-dos ng hapon. Sasabihan ko rin po ang staff. Salamat po!
Your visit to Rosario is booked for Saturday at two in the afternoon. I'll let the staff know too. Thank you!
What the AI can handle
- Answers calls in English and Tagalog
- Books, moves and cancels appointments when connected to your calendar
- Answers common questions from your business information
- Takes messages and sends a call summary to your team
- Transfers a caller to your staff when they need a person
- Covers after-hours and busy periods
Regulated industries
For health, aged care, legal, financial and immigration businesses the agent handles admin enquiries only: bookings, opening hours, directions and messages. It does not give medical, legal or financial advice in Tagalog or English. Those questions go to your qualified staff.
Pay for talk time only
Tagalog calls cost the same per minute as English. Load credit once, it never expires, and every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
See full pricing- New Zealand
- 95c to 77c a minute
- Plus GST, from $500 of credit
- Australia
- 95c to 71c a minute
- In AUD, from A$500 of credit
Plus $130 a month for the platform. The more credit you load, the less each minute costs.
Rated 5.0 on Google
Read all reviews on Google (opens in a new tab)- ★★★★★
The AI Receptionist has been fantastic for our team at Rangehood Solutions. It’s taken a huge amount of workload off us, especially when we’re a staff member down, and means we can keep looking after customers without calls being missed.
Rangehood Solutions
AI receptionist client, New Zealand
- ★★★★★
It handles hundreds of calls a day, prospecting, qualifying sellers, and building a pipeline for future deals. … Not a set-and-forget service, they actually care about results.
James Mairs
Auckland apartment agency
- ★★★★★
Getting an entire team, from our IT manager to our admin staff, aligned on AI is not easy. Leo made it look easy! … No hype. No theory.
Shiv Narayan
Technology Solutions NZ
$253,000 saved in one year, by no one being pulled off their work to answer phones.
Every call used to cost someone about 25 minutes: the call itself, then getting back into their work. Across the team that added up to more than 1,650 hours a year. Now their AI receptionist answers every call.
- 4,000 calls answered in a year
- 1,650+ hours of team time back
- <1 sec to answer, every time
Every call answered, every booking captured
AI receptionistCalls answered, messages passed, transfers made
GML Lawyers' AI receptionist answers inbound calls, takes and passes messages to the right person, and transfers callers within their existing VoIP system.
Bookings taken while hands are full
While the stylists are mid-colour, the AI receptionist answers, books the appointment, and texts the client a confirmation. No ringing phone, no lost chair.
Switch off, let the AI hold the phone
Start delegating the admin to AI and get your time back. Your receptionist answers every call, books the job, and passes only the urgent ones to you.
Tagalog AI receptionist: common questions
Which Tagalog accents does the AI receptionist speak?
One: Joy has a female voice with a Manila Tagalog accent. There is no male Tagalog voice yet. Bisaya (Cebuano) and Ilocano are not offered. Before go-live we run test calls with your own callers so you can hear how it handles the way they speak.
Can callers switch between English and Tagalog?
Yes. Taglish is normal and supported. In our tests the receptionist heard Tagalog and English together in one call, and callers could mix both freely, even inside one sentence. Joy follows without being asked.
Does it understand phone numbers spoken in Tagalog?
Mostly, yes. In our tests a couple of digits were misheard, so the receptionist reads every number back to the caller and asks them to confirm it before saving. A wrong digit gets fixed on the call.
Does it speak Bisaya, Cebuano or Ilocano?
No. Joy speaks Tagalog and English. Bisaya (Cebuano) and Ilocano are separate languages and are not supported. Callers who speak them and also speak Tagalog or English can still use the receptionist in those languages.
Can I try a Tagalog demo now?
Yes. Talk to the Tagalog agent on this page, in your browser. Calls run for up to four minutes.
Can we keep our 1300 or 1800 number?
Yes. You keep your number and forward calls to the AI receptionist, all the time or only when you are busy, do not answer or are closed. A mobile number can forward the same way. You do not need a new number.
Can it transfer calls to our staff and send a summary?
Yes. It can put a caller through to a staff member's mobile when they need a person, and it sends a summary of every call to your team, with the transcript in your portal.
Can it give medical, legal or financial advice in Tagalog?
No. In regulated industries, including aged care and health, the agent handles admin only: bookings, opening hours, directions and messages. Anything that needs advice goes to your qualified staff.
Does a Tagalog receptionist cost more than English?
No. Tagalog calls are charged at the same per-minute rate as English, from 95c a minute down to 77c in New Zealand and 71c in Australia. Credit never expires and every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Where is call data stored?
Transcripts, call records, contact details and billing are stored in Sydney. The live audio, recording files, speech processing and the language model run offshore. We meet cross-border accountability requirements through documented arrangements with our voice infrastructure partner.
Ready to welcome more Tagalog-speaking customers?
Tell us what your customers usually call about, and we will show you how a Tagalog-speaking AI receptionist would handle those calls.
- Answers in Tagalog and English, around the clock
- Built around your services, hours and booking rules
- Credit that never expires, from $500
- Every plan backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee
Choose a time on our calendar. It takes less than a minute.
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