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Today the engine speaks Hindi, English and the Hinglish that most real calls are in, plus Gujarati in beta. Five more follow over the next two months: Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Kannada and Bengali. Roadmap: Hindi, Hinglish and English code-switch are live today, with Gujarati in beta; Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada arrive over the next two months, dates to be announced per language. Roadmap: Hindi, Hinglish and English code-switch are live today, with Gujarati in beta; Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada arrive over the next two months, dates to be announced per language. We announce each language’s date as it clears evaluation. Everything on the roadmap follows the same rule: dates are targets, and if a date and quality conflict, quality always wins. A language ships when it sounds like a person, even if that is later than the calendar says.

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Gujarati, in beta

Available now. Send Gujarati text and you get Gujarati audio from the same speech endpoint, with the same voices and at the same price. You don’t add a language parameter or any other field, and you don’t change any code, because the model reads the script you send.
  • Send Gujarati in Gujarati script (ગુજરાતી), since that is what the model reads.
  • English words stay in Latin script, mixed in mid-sentence, exactly the way they already work in Hindi.
  • Quality is still being tuned. Beta means it is good enough to build against and not yet at the bar our Hindi voices hold. Listen before you put it in front of customers, and tell us what you hear. We tune the voices on beta feedback.

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Why these six

Together these languages are the mother tongue of 429 million people, roughly every third Indian. For most of them, Hindi is no substitute. The census records how many speakers of each language also speak Hindi, and for four of the six the answer is almost none. Bar chart of first-language speakers per language, with the portion that does not speak Hindi highlighted: Bengali 97.2M of whom 88.9M, Marathi 83.0M of whom 48.4M, Telugu 81.1M of whom 76.5M, Tamil 69.0M of whom 68.0M, Gujarati 55.5M of whom 33.8M, Kannada 43.7M of whom 41.7M. Bar chart of first-language speakers per language, with the portion that does not speak Hindi highlighted: Bengali 97.2M of whom 88.9M, Marathi 83.0M of whom 48.4M, Telugu 81.1M of whom 76.5M, Tamil 69.0M of whom 68.0M, Gujarati 55.5M of whom 33.8M, Kannada 43.7M of whom 41.7M. 357 million people cannot be called in Hindi at all, so a voice agent that speaks only Hindi cannot reach them. Only 1.5% of Tamil speakers report speaking Hindi; for Telugu it is 5.7%, for Kannada 4.7% and for Bengali 8.6%. With Hindi and these six together, an agent can speak the mother tongue of about four in five Indians.
Speaker counts are first-language speakers from the 2011 Census of India; “also speak Hindi” is Hindi reported as a second language (table C-17). These are the most recent official figures. The next census is due in 2027.

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What support means

  • Same endpoint, same request shape. The speech endpoint does not change. You send text in the language’s own script, code-switched with English the way real conversation is, and get audio back.
  • Native voices. Each language ships with its own voices in the voice gallery, evaluated by native speakers. We do not use an accented Hindi voice to read Tamil.
  • TTS ships first. This page tracks the voice. A full agent conversation in a language also needs our speech recognition and LLM to clear the same bar, and that work follows the voice, so each language lands on the speech endpoint first.

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Get early access

Each language runs an alpha with a small set of customers before it reaches the gallery. If calls in one of these languages matter to your business, tell your account contact which one. We allocate alpha slots in the order customers ask, and we tune the final voices on alpha customers’ text.