Sarvam AI Unveils Bulbul V2: Advanced Speech AI Model for 11 Indian Languages

Sarvam AI Launches Bulbul, New Voice Model for Indian Market

The model promises lightning-fast performance and custom voices for brands, enhancing user experience with custom solutions. Sarvam AI has unveiled Bulbul, a new speech AI model that supports 11 Indian languages with natural, region-specific accents. It offers authentic, human-like voice interactions. "Natural, familiar speech in 11 Indian languages, with authentic accents that sound just like India," said Sarvam AI in their announcement. Bulbul's focus is to provide voice interactions that are "Not robotic. Not rehearsed. Just real." The system promises lightning-fast performance and custom voices for brands, enhancing user experience with custom solutions. The first version of Bulbul, called Bulbul v1, was released last year in August and featured six distinct voices, each designed to cater to a wide range of communication needs across various industries and contexts. Sarvam AI was recently selected by the Government of India under the IndiaAI Mission to develop India's sovereign Large Language Model (LLM) as part of the effort to create indigenous AI capabilities. The company recently demonstrated its capabilities by translating high-profile content, including the Lex Fridman podcast featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi, into nine Indian languages Announcing the development, Sarvam AI said, "Building India's sovereign model from the ground up is a crucial step toward Atmanirbhar Bharat." The model will be designed to be fluent in Indian languages, optimised for voice, capable of reasoning, and ready for secure, population-scale deployment. Sarvam AI has proposed the development of a 70-billion parameter multimodal AI model that supports both Indian languages and English, and work on it has already begun. The start-up, selected from 67 applicants, will receive government support in the form of compute resources to build the model from scratch. Founded in 2023 by Dr. Vivek Raghavan and Dr. Pratyush Kumar, both veterans in AI research, public infrastructure, and large-scale systems, the Bengaluru-based company is backed by Lightspeed, Peak XV Partners, and Khosla Ventures.

Sarvam Unveils New Speech AI Model With 11 Indian Languages Support

The speech model Bubul V2 will offer custom voice options for brands GenAI startup Sarvam AI, recently selected by the Centre to build India's first homegrown LLM, has unveiled a new speech AI model that supports 11 Indian languages, including Punjabi, Marathi, Odiya, Tamil and Bangla, among others. The Bengaluru-based startup took to X to announce Bulbul V2. 'Meet the all-new Bulbul...Natural, familiar speech in 11 Indian languages, with authentic accents that sound just like India," the X post read. Sarvam AI claims that the model has fast performance and a voice that doesn't appear robotic but real. It further says that the model will also offer a custom voice option for brands to represent their distinctive identity. "From lower latency and India-first pricing to wider language, Bulbul sets a new benchmark for Speech AI in India," it said in the post. Notably, Blubul V1 had six voices to suit different needs. The central government picked Sarvam AI to build India's first homegrown sovereign large language model under the IndiaAI Mission. Sarvam last month said in a statement that it will receive a dedicated compute infrastructure to build the model from scratch. The LLM will focus on reasoning, support voice-based tasks and work fluently across Indian languages. It is being designed for secure, population-scale use. The model will be fully developed, deployed and optimised within the country, using local talent and infrastructure.