New Delhi, Dec. 19 -- As voice becomes a primary interface for customer engagement, automation, and analytics in India, speech recognition is emerging as foundational infrastructure rather than an application-layer add-on. Bengaluru-based Gnani.ai has entered this arena with the launch of Vachana STT, a foundational Indic speech-to-text model trained on over 1 million hours of real-world voice data, released under the IndiaAI Mission.

Vachana STT is the first public release in Gnani.ai's upcoming VoiceOS, a unified voice intelligence stack that spans speech recognition, synthesis, understanding, and orchestration. The company positions the model as core infrastructure, designed for production environments rather than stitched together fr...