- Published on September 9, 2025
- In AI Features
IndiaAI Risks Losing Its Voice to OpenAI
IndiaAI’s voice AI mission is stalling while OpenAI races ahead—a first-mover launch in Indian languages could leave IndiaAI irrelevant.
- By Mohit Pandey
For the past six months, the IndiaAI Mission has been working on building speech and voice APIs. Progress, however, has been slow. GPU allotments were delayed, timelines were tight, and it was only last week that E2E Networks bagged a ₹177 crore contract to supply GPU resources to Bengaluru-based Gnani.ai to build its goal of voice and speech AI models.
Yet, despite the activity, nothing foundational has shipped from IndiaAI so far.
OpenAI, meanwhile, has been moving at a very different pace. It recently rolled out gpt-realtime, billed as its “most advanced” speech-to-speech model. Developers and enterprises can now build production-ready voice agents straight out of the box.
The launch comes after the company set up an office in India, started local hiring
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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