VoicERA:
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology unveiled VoicERA at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.
- It is an open-source, end-to-end Voice AI stack.
- It is deployed on the BHASHINI National Language Infrastructure.
- It establishes a national execution layer for multilingual Voice and Language AI.
- It is designed to be open, pluggable, interoperable, cloud deployable, and on premise ready.
- The platform enables secure and scalable deployment of voice systems across government, research institutions, and innovation ecosystems.
- Significance:
- Modularising the voice stack reduces duplication of effort and eliminates vendor lock-in
- The integration of VoicERA strengthens BHASHINI’s role as India’s national language
- It expands BHASHINI’s capabilities from translation and language technologies to real-time speech systems, conversational AI, and multilingual telephony at a population scale.
- BHASHINI or the BHASHa INterface for India, is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered language translation platform.
- It is developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) under its National Language Translation Mission.
- It aims to build a National Public Digital Platform for languages to develop services and products for citizens by leveraging the power of AI and other emerging technologies.
- It helps people translate content into various Indian languages.
- It uses cutting-edge AI and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to bridge the language divide, enabling users to access content and services in their preferred language.
- It is implemented by Digital India BHASHINI Division, a division under Digital India Corporation, a Section 8 Company of the MeitY.
- Bhashini currently supports more than 22 languages, enabling inclusivity for a broad range of linguistic communities.
