Building Voice AI for India: Why Transcription, Transliteration and Code-Mixing Are One Problem
fooobar · x · 2026-10-19
The author argues that India's speech landscape can't be treated as a single-language problem—people often code-switch mid-sentence. Transcription, transliteration and code-mixing are deeply interconnected, and insights from solving one help resolve the others. Their team is applying this idea while building a voice AI stack for India, one that must understand not just local languages but how people actually speak.
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