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How founders use AI for AI in Indian Languages

The resources behind 7 questions founders actually ask, then the questions themselves, each with a straight answer.

On the AI map, 29 October 2026 Open-weight models Avatars and voice

What founders use for ai in indian languages, ranked by how many answers lean on it.

  1. The Indus app listing: chat in Hindi, English, Tamil or a mix, tap the mic to speak, and hosting in India. play.google.com Tool Indus by Sarvam Sarvam AI (Google Play) In 3 answers
  2. Shows the same spoken Hinglish written three ways (native script, English translation, English letters), and covers 22... sarvam.ai Tool Speech to Text API for Indian Languages Sarvam AI In 2 answers
  3. BharatGen's open Param2 model, 17 billion parameters covering all 22 scheduled languages and English, and the smaller Param1... bharatgen.com Tool Param: language models for India BharatGen In 2 answers
  4. The government's Bhashini app: speech to text, translation between Indian languages, and text to speech, for talking with... play.google.com Tool BHASHINI Digital India Bhashini Division (Google Play)
  5. The government's translation products, including Lekhaanuvaad for documents and Chitraanuvaad for video in Indian languages. bhashini.gov.in Tool BHASHINI's Arpan Applications Digital India Bhashini Division
  6. Dubs a video into Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu and eight more languages in the original speaker's voice, with the first 30... sarvam.ai Tool Sarvam Content Studio Sarvam AI
  7. Every Sarvam rate in rupees: speech to text, voices, translation, dubbing, document reading and its 105B model. sarvam.ai Tool Sarvam API Pricing Sarvam AI
  8. Per-minute rupee prices for phone voice agents in 11 Indian languages and English, by monthly volume. sarvam.ai Tool Voice Agents pricing Sarvam AI
  9. The downloadable Sarvam-105B model under Apache 2.0, for teams that want to host it themselves. huggingface.co Tool sarvamai/sarvam-105b Sarvam AI (Hugging Face)
  10. Where an organisation registers once to use Bhashini's translation and speech APIs, models and datasets. bhashini.gov.in Tool BHASHINI Digital India Bhashini Division

The questions

Which AI assistant works best in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali or my own language? Start with the assistant you already use. ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude all read and write Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada and Malayal... 8 resources → How do I get better answers when I type in Hinglish or in English letters? Assistants understand Hinglish and Hindi typed in English letters, but they are less reliable with it. A study of real messages to a maternal health service ... 8 resources → Can I talk to an AI out loud in Hindi, Tamil or Marathi instead of typing? Yes. In ChatGPT, open Settings, then Voice, then Language, and pick the language you speak most so it hears you correctly; Hindi has two voices of its own, L... 8 resources → How do I translate a document or dub a video into my language with AI? For a document, Google Translate's website takes Word, PDF, PowerPoint and Excel files up to 10 MB, PDFs up to 300 pages, though text inside images is left u... 9 resources → Are Indian-built AI apps like Sarvam's Indus or BharatGen better than ChatGPT? Better at some things. Sarvam's Indus app runs on Sarvam-105B, trained in India for 22 Indian languages, and is strongest for voice in your language and ques... 10 resources → I want to build an app for Indian-language users. What do speech and language APIs cost? The Indian specialists publish rupee prices. Sarvam charges Rs 0.49 a minute for speech-to-text across 22 Indian languages, Rs 1 per 1,000 characters for its... 11 resources → Where does AI still get Indian languages wrong, and how do I check its answer? Dialects, names, numbers and culture are where it slips. In AI4Bharat and Josh Talks' Voice of India test, OpenAI's transcription models got over 55% of word... 8 resources →
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