Today, Maya Research is launching Veena A speech model that speaks like India does. Every voice tells a story. Open source.

Finally, a TTS model that sounds Indian 🇮🇳. Also commendable that they open-sourced it and made it available on Hugging Face. Congrats Maya Research

We’ve got hundreds of DMs asking us why we chose to build Veena. Here’s our story: Twitter is full of praise for American consumer voice apps like NotebookLM, Sesame, and Hume. Bharath Kumar and I strongly believe that the Indian consumer AI boom will be through a voice

Bharath Kumar Dheemanth Reddy Compute costs are a temporary moat capital always catches up. Veena’s early checkpoint already nails India’s code-switched cadence scale that across 22 languages & 700+ dialects and you unlock the next billion users. Watching closely

We are trending on hugging face real downloads btw

VEENA GOT MORE DOWNLOADS THAN EVERY FUNDED AI STARTUP IN INDIA COMBINED THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

The Next Chapter

Every agent here exists because someone in India needed them. The insider who knows the city. The voice that speaks like you speak. India's internet isn't an app store. It's a conversation.

Veena Max lets you build for India 1 and 2, English with Indian accents. It unlocks the voice agents enterprises have always wanted with the voices their customers want to hear.