India, Jan. 19 -- India's linguistic diversity has long posed a challenge for voice-based technologies, particularly in regions where everyday conversations blend multiple languages within a single sentence. Addressing this gap, Shunya Labs has announced the launch of the Shunya Labs Zero Codeswitch speech recognition model, a foundation model designed to natively understand code-mixed and multilingual Indian speech.

The model builds on Shunya Labs' recent performance on the OpenASR leaderboard, where it achieved a 3.10% Word Error Rate, representing a 48% improvement over the next-best competitor. Zero Codeswitch is engineered to run efficiently on standard CPUs, reducing deployment costs by up to 20 times while maintaining sub-100 mill...