What we learnt building a voice agent on two frontier Indian AI models

It took The Ken three days, a high-end laptop, and little money to build a voice-transcription AI agent on India’s state-funded large language model BharatGen. 

BharatGen is one of 12 companies that the government is backing to develop a “sovereign” AI ecosystem. But it is one of only two chasing frontier capabilities. The other is Sarvam. 

The Ken tested both, coding over a weekend with two programmers to build an agent for various Indic languages and comparing them with a global benchmark, Scribe v2 from the........

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