Calculate dates across the 13-month Ge'ez calendar, follow Ethiopian time with its 6-hour dawn offset, check Orthodox fasting dates using traditional Bahire Hasab calculations, or convert and transcribe Ethiopian audio recordings.
Live dual clock showing current Ethiopian time alongside East Africa Time (UTC+3). Displays 12-hour day and night cycles with both Arabic digits and Ge'ez numerals.
Converts dates between the 13-month Ethiopian calendar and the Gregorian calendar. Handles leap years from 1900 to 2100 with Amharic weekday alignments.
Calculates movable Orthodox Christian fasts and feasts for 2019 E.C. (2026/2027) using the traditional Bahire Hasab lunar system, including Abiy Tsom (Great Lent) and Fasika (Easter).
Translates standard 24-hour or 12-hour time into spoken Ethiopian time segments, including morning (ጠዋት), afternoon (ከሰዓት), evening (ምሽት), and night (ሌሊት).
Calculates your age in Ethiopian calendar years, months, and days based on your Gregorian birthdate, with a countdown to your next Ethiopian birthday.
Verified dates, historical context, and countdowns for Ethiopian Orthodox, Islamic, and national public holidays through 2035.
Synthesizes natural Amharic speech from written Ge'ez text using native Ethiopian voice models. Accurately handles unwritten consonant doubling (ሸረት).
Translates Word (.docx) and PDF files between Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya, and English while keeping tables, section headings, and layouts intact.
Transcribes spoken Amharic audio into formatted text with punctuation, speaker separation, and optional English translation.
Speech recognition for Afaan Oromo using Qubee Latin orthography and Tigrinya using Ge'ez fidel, tuned for conversational audio and dialect variations.
REST and WebSocket endpoints for date conversions, holiday schedules, text-to-speech, and audio transcription across Ethiopian languages.
An overview of the astronomical geometry, historical computus formulas, and linguistic principles governing these tools.
Western timekeeping begins its 24-hour cycle at solar midnight (00:00). In Ethiopia, the daily clock begins at dawn. Because the country is located near the Equator, daylight duration remains practically 12 hours long throughout all seasons, with sunrise occurring around 6:00 AM Western time. The Ethiopian clock sets 6:00 AM as the transition to the first hour of day.
The Ethiopian civil calendar retains the solar structure of the ancient Alexandrian calendar: 12 months with exactly 30 days each, followed by a 13th month of 5 days (6 days in a leap year), named Pagume (ጳጉሜ). The calendar sits 7 to 8 years behind the Gregorian calendar because it adopted the historical Incarnation calculation of Annus Mundi formulated by Alexandrian scholars.
General speech recognition models frequently mistranscribe Amharic and Tigrinya because standard Ge'ez fidel does not mark consonant gemination (ሸረት). Gemination changes grammatical function and vocabulary meanings entirely. In addition, Ethiopian Semitic languages use glottalic ejective consonants (ቀ, ጠ, ጨ, ጸ, ጰ) that require acoustic models trained on regional audio recordings rather than global speech data.
Integrate Ethiopian calendar calculations, holiday schedules, and speech transcription into web and mobile applications. Andebet provides REST and WebSocket endpoints with code samples for Python, TypeScript, and cURL, returning standard JSON payloads.
Answers to questions regarding Ethiopian time calculation, calendar mathematics, fasting computus, and language models.
The Ethiopian day starts at dawn rather than midnight. Because Ethiopia is situated near the Equator between latitudes 3°N and 15°N, daylight length changes by less than 45 minutes across the entire year. Sunrise occurs around 6:00 AM Western time in all seasons. The Ethiopian clock begins counting from this natural transition: 6:00 AM Western time is 12:00 dawn, and 7:00 AM Western time is the 1st daytime hour (ቀን 1:00 ሰዓት). The daytime cycle runs for 12 hours until sunset (6:00 PM Western time / 12:00 dusk), followed by a 12-hour nighttime cycle (ማታ/ሌሊት 1:00 to 12:00).
The Ethiopian calendar descends from the ancient Alexandrian solar calendar. Each year contains 12 months of 30 days each (totalling 360 days), plus a short 13th month called Pagume (ጳጉሜ) containing 5 intercalary days in a common year and 6 days in a leap year. Leap years occur every 4 years without exception, designated as the year of Saint Luke (ዘመነ ሉቃስ). The 7-to-8 year difference from the Gregorian calendar results from distinct historical determinations of the Annunciation of Christ.
Bahire Hasab (literally 'Sea of Computation') is the traditional computus system of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Attributed to the 3rd-century Patriarch Demetrius of Alexandria, it calculates the calendar dates of movable fasts and feasts—such as Great Lent (Abiy Tsom), Nineveh, and Easter (Fasika)—by cross-referencing the 19-year Metonic lunar cycle with the weekday on which the Ethiopian New Year falls.
Yes. The translation tool parses Word and PDF document object models directly. It translates text within paragraphs, table cells, and bullet lists while preserving original borders, font sizes, alignments, and document structure.
Standard multilingual speech models fail on Amharic primarily because written Ge'ez fidel does not mark consonant gemination (ሸረት), the doubling of consonant sounds that alters word meanings entirely. In addition, Amharic has distinct glottalic ejective consonants (ቀ, ጠ, ጨ, ጸ, ጰ) and 6th-order epenthetic vowels (ሳድስ) whose acoustics depend on dialect and speaking rate. Andebet trains acoustic models directly on regional Ethiopian speech recordings to preserve fidel orthography and speaker attribution.
Yes. All calendar conversions, holiday schedules, liturgical computus math, and speech recognition endpoints can be queried through standard REST and WebSocket APIs using Python, TypeScript, or cURL.
Record family oral histories during Ethiopian holidays, church choral performances, academic research, or business meetings in Addis Ababa. Andebet transcribes Amharic, Afaan Oromo, and Tigrinya with native Ge'ez fidel and Latin orthography.