Summary
Shunya Labs is developing proprietary voice AI infrastructure tailored for India's diverse linguistic landscape, supporting multilingual, accented, and code-switched speech across 220 languages, including 55 Indian languages. Founded by Ritu Mehrotra and Sourav Bandyopadhyay, the company's technology runs on CPUs, significantly reducing deployment costs, and recently launched Vāķ, an open-weight real-time translation system.