Best Speech and Voice Recognition Companies in India
The 68 best Speech and Voice Recognition companies in India in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Sarvam.
- Speech and Voice Recognition Market Is Expected To Generate US$ 43 Bil
- Speech and Voice Recognition Market
Ranked: Best Speech and Voice Recognition companies in India
| # | Company | Revenue | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ignitarium Provider of AI-powered semiconductor and embedded system design platform | $17M FY2025 | — | 83 mo ago | 539 539 → 529 (-2%) | 2012 | Sanjay Jayakumar Co-Founder & CEO | — |
| 2 | Ubona Provider of AI-powered customer communication platform and related support services | $10M FY2025 | — | 214 mo ago | 111 111 → 178 (+60%) | 2007 | Jyotirmoy Chakravorty Co-Founder & CEO | 1 launch |
| 3 | Skit.ai Provider of AI-powered debt collection platform for automating and streamlining collection processes | $5M FY2025 | $48M | 37 mo ago | 96 96 → 180 (+88%) | 2016 | Akshay Deshraj Co-Founder & CTO | 1 internship |
| 4 | Sarvam 🦄 Provider of a platform for developing and deploying language-based artificial intelligence 83Innovation top 17%Moat top 17%Tech top 24%Funding top 26% All 12 signals ▾Innovationtop 17% Moattop 17% Techtop 24% Fundingtop 26% Growthtop 30% AItop 30% Newstop 37% Producttop 38% Talenttop 38% Markettop 40% Fin. healthbottom 38% Globalbottom 37% Innovation: 44 new-product events in 24 mo · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence Moat: Top 1% by revenue among 13 tracked Speech and Voice Recognition companies · Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 83/100 | $3M FY2025 | $54M | 10 mo ago | 38 | 2023 | Pratyush Kumar Co-Founder & CEO | 1 partnership |
| 5 | Augnito AI-powered clinical documentation solutions for healthcare | $1M FY2024 | — | 24 mo ago | 106 106 → 98 (-8%) | 2020 | Shiraz Austin Co-Founder | 1 launch |
| 6 | Dragon Medical Speech recognition software solutions for healthcare professionals | $506K FY2025 | — | — | 18 | 2009 | Pankaj Goenka CEO | — |
| 7 | Navana Provider of voice artificial intelligence solutions for enterprise applications 40AI top 30%Talent top 38%Tech top 40%Moat top 41% All 9 signals ▾AItop 30% Talenttop 38% Techtop 40% Moattop 41% Growthtop 45% Fundingbottom 44% Globalbottom 37% Fin. healthbottom 35% Marketbottom 29% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 40/100 | $251K FY2025 | $1M | 12 mo ago | 5 | 2018 | Jai Nanavati Co-Founder & CTO | — |
| 8 | Niki Provider of an AI-based automated order-taking app for concierge services | $229K FY2025 | $11M | 69 mo ago | 1 | 2015 | Sachin Jaiswal Co-Founder | — |
| 9 | Thelightbulb Provider of AI tools for market research and consumer insights 72Growth top 20%Innovation top 25%Tech top 28%Talent top 28% All 11 signals ▾Growthtop 20% Innovationtop 25% Techtop 28% Talenttop 28% AItop 30% Moattop 33% Fundingtop 45% Producttop 45% Globalbottom 43% Fin. healthbottom 38% Marketbottom 32% Growth: Revenue +68% YoY · Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY Innovation: 9 product lines · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $187K FY2025 | $2M | 13 mo ago | 20 20 → 26 (+30%) | 2021 | Ritu Soni Srivastava Co-founder & CEO | — |
| 10 | Indian TTS Text to speech Indian voice software | $176K FY2025 | $205K | 121 mo ago | 6 | 2015 | Mausamkumar Patel Co-Founder & CEO | — |
| 11 | Dhee.AI Provider of conversational AI solutions for enterprise customer interaction | $143K FY2025 | $479K | 47 mo ago | 10 | 2017 | Sreekumar Jairaj Co-Founder & CTO | 1 launch |
| 12 | Louie voice Provider of an app-based voice assistant platform | $133K FY2025 | $2M | 53 mo ago | 9 | 2018 | — | — |
| 13 | Liv.ai AI based natural language processor - Stealth mode | $118K FY2022 | $2M | 105 mo ago | 7 | 2015 | — | — |
| 14 | Desi Vocal Media Provider of voice overs with text-to-speech capabilities for various applications | $107K FY2025 | — | — | — | 2023 | Kali Vemuru Co-Founder | — |
| 15 | LatticeBridge Infotech Speech recognition technology provider | $93K FY2021 | $493K | 134 mo ago | 10 | 2002 | Mohan Ram Chandrasekar Founder & CEO | — |
| 16 | Pradhi Developer of voice-based AI platform extracting intelligence from speech and text | $70K FY2025 | — | — | — | 2022 | Vijayalakshmi Raghavan Co-Founder & CEO | — |
| 17 | InCights Voice bio-metric solutions for identification & verification of customers | $60K FY2017 | $160K | 151 mo ago | — | 2010 | Subhash Chandra Kuchhal Co-Founder | — |
| 18 | Kwantics Provider of a voice based customer support conversational AI assistant | $54K FY2021 | $409K | 61 mo ago | 14 | 2017 | — | — |
| 19 | IndiaSpeaks Provider of language transcription services | $42K FY2025 | — | 40 mo ago | — | 2021 | Sasidharan Ayyavu Founder & CEO | — |
| 20 | Kon-Tiki Labs Develops chatbots and conversation scripts | $37K FY2025 | — | — | — | 2017 | Titash Neogi Co-Founder | — |
| 21 | Kooki Offers products to lock and unlock cars via mobile | $17K FY2020 | $64K | 115 mo ago | — | 2012 | Shashank Revankar Founder & CEO | — |
| 22 | Prodloop AI powered voice analytics solutions for businesses | $8K FY2025 | — | — | — | 2024 | Pradeep Patil Co-Founder & CTO | — |
| 23 | Voicezen.ai Online platform offering voice analysis solutions | $6K FY2025 | $606K | 73 mo ago | 20 | 2018 | Ragy Thomas CEO | — |
| 24 | curieo Provider of AI-based English tutoring platform | $204 FY2025 | $481K | 78 mo ago | 3 | 2016 | — | — |
| 25 | Novolytics Online platform for noise fault identification solutions | $19 FY2023 | — | — | — | 2021 | Haritash Tamvada Co-Founder | 1 internship |
| 26 | Nuronics AI based speech and image recognition services | $0 FY2022 | — | — | 5 | 2017 | Viplav Valluri Chief Executive Officer | — |
| 27 | Shubu.ai Provider of an AI-based EHR facilitator for healthcare professionals | — | $1M | 63 mo ago | 7 | 2020 | Ajay Dani founder | — |
| 28 | Mashinga Tech Provider of meeting assistant translating conversations | — | $111K | 72 mo ago | 4 | 2013 | Nidal Rashid Co-Founder | — |
Top 12 Speech and Voice Recognition companies in India
#1
Sarvam 🦄Series A · Bengaluru, Karnataka · founded 2023 · 38 employees$53.6Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for developing and deploying language-based artificial intelligence. The platform offers tools for building conversational agents, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text applications. It provides infrastructure for serving models and focuses on enterprise-grade security. The platform supports cloud, private cloud, and on-premises deployment options.
- Aug 2025Series A$227.6K
- Dec 2023Series A$28.5M
- Aug 2023Seed$12.6M
#2
Seed · Bengaluru, Karnataka · founded 2025$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of an AI speech model orchestration platform. The platform helps voice agents adapt in production, learn from each call, and ensures continuous user service. It offers automated feedback loops for analyzing call recordings, identifying problem areas with AI-powered insights, and implementing prompt improvements. The platform allows for real-time verification of the improvements.
- Dec 2025Seed$1.2M
#3
Seed · Mumbai, Maharashtra · founded 2018 · 5 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Provider of voice artificial intelligence solutions for enterprise applications. The company delivers voice-based technologies and products for digital service accessibility. It offers a platform to build and evaluate telephony voice agents. It provides speech models for real-time and batch use cases. It delivers batch-processed transcripts, call summaries, and performance insights.
- Jun 2025Seed$1.5M
- Apr 2021Grant (prize money)—
- Jul 2020Grant (prize money)—
- Apr 2019Seed—
#4
Seed · Mumbai, Maharashtra · founded 2021 · 20 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Provider of AI tools for market research and consumer insights. The company offers software for quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis. Its tools include facial action coding, eye tracking, and speech transcription. It also provides generative AI, survey research, and text sentiment analysis.
- May 2025Grant (prize money)$50K
- Jun 2022Seed$1.5M
#5
Series B · Bengaluru, Karnataka · founded 2016 · 96 employees$47.6Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered debt collection platform for automating and streamlining collection processes. The company offers solutions for first and third-party collections, early-out collections, and creditor services. It provides AI assistants, voice and SMS automation, email and chat automation. The platform focuses on collection intelligence, immersive customer experience, omnichannel AI, and compliance. It offers integrations with various technologies and provides analytics for data-driven strategies, with a focus on operational efficiency and compliance.
- May 2023Series B$16.7M
- May 2021Series B$25M
- Apr 2020Series A$5.1M
- Feb 2019Angel$134.5K
#6
Deadpooled · Bengaluru, Karnataka · founded 2015 · 1 employees$11Mraised▾
Provider of an AI-based automated order-taking app for concierge services. It has pioneered the Do-It-For-Me Model and it is built with proprietary conversational technology that understands and fulfills customers' needs via voice. Its value chain has a strong supply-side gatekeeping that ensures quality goods and services and is coupled with a digital and human stack that provides end-to-end proactive assistance to the customers.
- Sep 2020Series A$1.6M
- Jul 2020Angel$53.7K
- Nov 2019Series A$3.2M
- Feb 2019Series A$1.9M
#7
Seed · Mumbai, Maharashtra · founded 2011 · 6 employees$881.2Kraised▾
Provider of AI-powered recruitment automation platform for screening, scheduling, and onboarding. The platform integrates phone, WhatsApp, email, and bots to automate candidate interactions. It converts candidate responses into text, matching them against hiring criteria for efficient screening. The platform aims to reduce hiring costs and improve recruiter efficiency by automating tasks from sourcing to onboarding. It offers features like automated phone interactions, candidate screening, and interview scheduling.
- Sep 2023Seed$90.1K
- Dec 2020Seed$563.1K
- Mar 2012Seed$228K
#8
Seed · Gurugram, Haryana · founded 2018 · 9 employees$1.7Mraised▾
Provider of an app-based voice assistant platform. It provides users with an app that enables users to control their mobile phones and apps with the help of voice commands. Its features include integration with multiple third-party apps, two-way voice communication, offline modes, app management, read-it-aloud features, image recognition, and control management.
- Jan 2022Seed$943K
- Feb 2021Seed$132.8K
- Jan 2020Angel$233K
- Oct 2018Angel$380.5K
#9
Seed · Bengaluru, Karnataka · founded 2017 · 10 employees$478.7Kraised▾
Provider of conversational AI solutions for enterprise customer interaction. This provider offers virtual agents capable of handling various tasks across industries, delivering personalized customer engagement through advanced conversational AI technology. The platform supports multiple languages and allows for customization of chatbots, including features like emotion detection and voice assistance. It also provides scalable infrastructure and integrates with social media platforms and IVR systems. The solution includes detailed performance reporting and audit trails for monitoring and analysis. Custom conversational experiences can be built using voice and text APIs.
- Jul 2022Angel$72.5K
- Apr 2021Seed$286.1K
- Dec 2020Seed$54.2K
- Jul 2020Seed$33.5K
#10
Acquired · Bengaluru, Karnataka · founded 2015 · 7 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Liv.ai claims to be a deep learning and artificial intelligence based speech recognition and natural language tool for Indian languages. It is using these technologies for the automation industry.
- Sep 2017Angel$615.7K
- Mar 2017Seed$385.2K
- Jan 2017Angel$92.3K
- Feb 2016Angel$290.4K
#11
Deadpooled · Bengaluru, Karnataka · founded 2020 · 7 employees$1Mraised▾
Provider of an AI-based EHR facilitator for healthcare professionals. The company has developed an EMR solution that assists with medical prescriptions, patients' appointments, and other medical scheduling tasks. The tool uses AI technology to provides voice-enabled interaction with the user for managing patient records, generating prescriptions, and scheduling calendars. Features include real-time data transcription, documentation, and more.
- Mar 2021Angel$1M
#12
Deadpooled · Hyderabad, Telangana · founded 2005 · 47 employees$2.5Mraised▾
ReQall, a product of Hyderabad based QTech provides a voice-enabled personal productivity software program that integrates phone, email, text messaging and IM into a mobile memory aid. The software can be deployed into iOS and Android platforms. A user needs to speak to the software and the software identifies and transcripts the said information. The software also has the capability to remind the user of his schedules and plannings.
- 2006Seed$2.5M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Speech and Voice Recognition coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Speech & Audio AI is moving in India
A read on the academic research around Speech & Audio AI — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 3,932 India-affiliated papers.
- Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham139
- SRM Institute of Science and Technology129
- Saveetha University113
- Vellore Institute of Technology University93
- Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology71
- Speech recognition4→510
- Pattern recognition (psychology)9→456
- Convolutional neural network2→316
- Sign language1→212
- Electroencephalography4→213
- Speech recognition14→521
- Pattern recognition (psychology)10→433
- Convolutional neural network1→203
- Electroencephalography9→202
- Natural language processing3→162
- Speech recognition1→34
- Natural language processing1→11
- Sign language1→7
- Feature extraction1→7
- Gesture1→6
Where speech ai is researched across India
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing speech ai patents in India
India speech ai patent filing is accelerating — 37 filings from 96 assignees (2016–2025), led by Tata Consultancy Services, Nuance Communications, Risbood Pankaj; annual filings 2→9.
- Tata Consultancy Services23
- Nuance Communications6
- Risbood Pankaj5
- Lloyd Matthew I5
- Shenoy RAVI5
- Google5
- Patwardhan Pushkar Prasad5
- Nokia4
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