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Gnani.ai Unveils Inya VoiceOS, India’s First 5B Voice-to-Voice Foundational Model Under the India AI Mission

Gnani.ai Unveils Inya VoiceOS, India’s First 5B Voice-to-Voice Foundational Model Under the India AI Mission
  • PublishedFebruary 17, 2026

Gnani.ai today announced the deployment of Inya VoiceOS, India’s first 5-Billion-parameter voice-to-voice foundational AI model, built under the India AI Mission. Inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, with Co-Founder and CEO Ganesh Gopalan demonstrating the technology, this model is a research preview release in line with the upcoming flagship 14-Billion-parameter voice-to-voice foundational AI model.

(L-R) Ganesh Gopalan, Co-Founder & CEO Gnani.ai and Ananth Nagaraj, Co-Founder & CTO, Gnani.ai
(L-R) Ganesh Gopalan, Co-Founder & CEO Gnani.ai and Ananth Nagaraj, Co-Founder & CTO, Gnani.ai

Inya VoiceOS enables end-to-end spoken intelligence by operating directly in acoustic and semantic space, eliminating the need for intermediate speech-to-text and text-to-speech pipelines. Gnani.ai joins a select group of very few companies worldwide to have built this advanced architectural capability.

Model Scale and Training

Inya VoiceOS is trained on one of the largest sovereign voice datasets deployed for Indian languages:

  • 5 billion parameters
  • 14+ million hours of multilingual speech pretraining data
  • 1.2+ million hours of task-specific speech finetuning data
  • 8+ trillion text tokens for linguistic grounding and reasoning

Native End-to-End Speech Intelligence

Unlike traditional cascaded systems, Inya VoiceOS:

  • consumes and generates speech tokens directly
  • jointly encodes phonetics, prosody, semantics, and intent
  • preserves paralinguistic cues such as tone, emotion, pacing, and pauses.

The model supports streaming, interruption-aware inference, handles overlapping speech and mid-utterance corrections without forcing conversational resets.

Technical Performance

  • Sub-second end-to-end latency
  • 24 kHz audio output with natural prosody
  • Native support for 15+ Indian languages
  • Robust handling of code-mixed speech

Impact and Availability

Government Services: Conversational AI for helplines, grievance redressal, and emergency response systems enables natural, multilingual citizen interaction with emotion-aware routing.

Enterprise Applications: Voice-driven workflows across BFSI, healthcare, insurance, and logistics support hands-free operation and context-aware conversational automation.

Built, trained, and deployed entirely within India, Inya VoiceOS ensures complete data sovereignty.

Speaking at the event, Ganesh Gopalan, Co-Founder and CEO of Gnani.ai, said, “Voice-to-voice AI is not just about faster pipelines. It is about a fundamentally different architecture that preserves what makes human conversation effective. With Inya VoiceOS, we’re bringing emotion and context into every interaction while delivering significantly better accuracy than traditional cascaded systems. This is critical for building AI that truly understands and responds to the nuances of human speech.”

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