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I built 5 apps for Bulbul Challenge @SarvamAI It was fun building these apps and learning. 🫂 SOCIAL GOOD 1️⃣ Dhairya — AI voice companion for cancer patients 42 courage stories narrated in Kannada. A patient hears "ನಿಮ್ಮ ಧೈರ್ಯ ನೋಡಿ" and feels less alone. 👉 dhairya-umber.vercel.app 2️⃣ Vaani — Voice translator for migrant workers Millions of Indians move to states where they don't speak the local language. Vaani lets them speak in their language and be understood. Real-time two-way voice translation. 👉 vaani-two.vercel.app 💼 BETTER CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE (Business Ideas) 3️⃣ Tring — AI voice agent for apartment management 500 residents. 10 languages. One helpdesk. Resident calls, speaks any language. AI creates ticket, notifies staff. Instantly. 👉 tring-indol.vercel.app 4️⃣ McDonald's India — Voice ordering in your language Ordering food online shouldn't require reading English. Tap mic. Say your language. Entire menu transforms. Agent confirms order in YOUR language. 👉 macdonalds-sage.vercel.app 🏥 AI SUPERPOWER 5️⃣ Meddo — AI Superpower for Doctors to deliver quality healthcare Every past visit. Every prescription. Every pattern — available the moment your patient walks in. Dictate in any language. AI structures notes. Flags "BP rising across 3 visits." Reads history aloud before next visit. You treat. Meddo remembers. 👉 meddo-alpha.vercel.app Every app uses the full Sarvam stack: 🎙️ Saarika STT — auto-detect language 🧠 Sarvam-M — understand and structure 🌐 Translate — cross-language 🔊 Bulbul V3 — speak back in your language India's problems need Indian AI. @SarvamAI is that platform. #TheMicIsYours @SarvamForDevs

Finally got the opportunity to meet @dineshpaii face to face after 3 to 4 years of emails and Zoom calls. Shared the @mundhebanni story and came back with sharp inputs on improving reach, content quality, and overall impact. Truly an incredible meeting. The warmth, humility, and genuine interest left me bowled over. Thank you, Dinesh, for the kind words and encouragement. Looking forward to collaborating on many things, including having you, Nithin, and Nikhil on the podcast. 🙌 @akaranth @Shishir_S_U

1/ TTS has been solving the wrong problem for years. The field spent a decade getting really good at reading text out loud. pronunciation accuracy, low WER, high fidelity - all basically solved. But here's the thing nobody wants to say: a voice that reads beautifully can still be genuinely awful to have a conversation with. In conversational generation, the model doesn't get the full sentence before it starts talking. It's producing audio in real-time chunks, with incomplete context at every step. That's a fundamentally different problem than "read this paragraph nicely."

2/ A conversational voice has to do four things simultaneously: Sound like it's thinking - natural speech has micro-variations in rhythm, pacing, and emphasis that signal active cognition. A metronomically consistent voice doesn't sound calm. It sounds scripted. Sound like it's listening - intonation in conversation is reactive. A response to a frustrated customer sounds different from a first-turn greeting. Prosody is how speech signals intent, and intent changes every turn. Handle how people actually speak - in real multilingual conversations, language doesn't switch at clean paragraphs. It switches mid-sentence, at the word level. A voice agent serving Hinglish or Spanglish speakers encounters this constantly. This is not an edge case. That’s how the world speaks. Keep the user engaged - the hardest, least quantifiable problem. A robotic voice doesn't just sound unpleasant; it creates friction. Vonage found 51% of U.S. consumers had abandoned a business entirely after reaching an IVR. The voice isn't a UX layer. It IS the product experience. Lightning V3 was designed around all four. Listen to the voices - Quinn

Introducing Lightning V3 that beats every model we tested against - ElevenLabs, Cartesia, OpenAI - on LLM-as-judge evaluation for naturalness, intonation, and prosody. It’s state of the art in conversational text-to-speech. We’ve achieved the highest MOS score across platforms for conversational TTS at 3.9. ~76% win rate vs gpt-4o-mini-tts. 15 languages with mid-sentence code-switching. Built from scratch for voice agents, not read-aloud. Here's what we shipped, how we moved from a TTS that reads text well to one that can actually hold a conversation, and where evals fall short in measuring the difference. 🧵

@deepakshenoy Eagerly awaiting. In my podcast I had said "Language is an emotion" in the context of marketing, but the response to a podcast recorded in kannada was simply heart warming ♥️ The reach, the relatedness and encouragement it kindred has been truly beyond borders, unbelievable.

Our next webinar on @mundhebanni : A master class on @claudeai in Kannada by @Nurturinglabs When: 4th April, Saturday Time: 11am to 12.30pm Register for free: 👇 live.zoho.in/sfep-ufc-ovi

This one was so much fun! Coming up, in Kannada....

Have you ever heard of a CEO firing himself from the company he co-founded? Our next story on @mundhebanni is exactly that, and much more. From a decade-long career in tech to taking a bold leap into the world of investing, what started as a simple blog with deep, no-nonsense insights has today evolved into one of India’s most trusted investment research and portfolio management platforms, managing thousands of crores. Yes, we are talking about @deepakshenoy, founder of Capitalmind. Why would someone leave a stable career to enter a space as unpredictable as the stock market? What does the journey from Thirthahalli to Surathkal to Bengaluru to Mumbai and back to Bengaluru really look like? In this conversation, we go beyond the journey. What does it take to move from managing your own money to managing others’ money? How do you build a profitable, sustainable business over 12 years without chasing funding? And in a world full of “finance influencers”, what truly sets Capitalmind apart? We also dive into the questions everyone is thinking about but few answer clearly, mistakes beginners make, ideal diversification, emergency funds, AI trading hype, and how to think long term in uncertain markets. Trailer and episode drop this week. @Shishir_S_U @kodlady @akaranth

Starting March 24th at 12pm EST, I'll be leading the @Replit Agent 4 Buildathon alongside @Franciscocrz and @MannyBernabe. Here's what to expect: > Go from idea-to-launch in just 3 weeks! 🚀 > Make new friends & push your skills to the max > Compete for bragging rights + cash + Replit credits > Finally get that idea out of your head and into world If you've ever had an idea for an app, a product, or some creative concept you don’t even have a name for yet, then this is your invitation to join us. Over the next 3 weeks we’ll be taking you on a guided journey from idea-to-launch as we showcase the power of Replit Agent 4. We're giving away $57k in total prize value including cash, Replit credits and other perks along the way. We'll be building right beside you on YouTube as well as in a private Discord community just for Replit builders. The tools have finally caught up with your imagination. Which means this is your moment! 🚀 The only thing holding you back now is your ability to focus in on the right problem and stick with it long enough to bring your idea to life. Which is exactly what this buildathon is all about. Join us tomorrow for a kick off livestream as we share how it will work and how you can get involved. Learn more at buildathons.replit.app

Hiring at @Replit. 90-day clock starts now. I was brought on by @pirroh to build internal platforms for every department at Replit - using Replit. Support, People Ops, GTM, Recruiting, S&M etc. Real enterprise systems, not templates. I need one more builder to join @seijadvice & I. Requirements: • You vibe code, but you also know what a P&L is • You've run something - a company, a team, a chaos machine. Show me that you can handle intensity • You can explain a database schema to an engineer and a workflow to a VP in the same meeting • You talk to humans just as well as you talk to machines This is not a "build me a pretty dashboard" role. This is: sit with a department, understand their pain, ship software that kills a $100K/yr vendor contract, then do it again next week. If your portfolio is landing pages and e-commerce sites, this isn't the gig. If you've built systems that actually run a business, DM me or email me directly with your Cover Letter, Resume and a Portfolio (site would be ideal but GitHub is fine) Bonus points if you built out using Replit and have AI features that go beyond a simple chatbot. (Must be able to come full time in Foster City)

‘Hosathodkku!’ means ‘New Start’ in Kannada. Today is the Vernal Equinox when the day and night are same. From now onwards, the day time starts to increase for us in Karnataka. ಹೊಸ ತೊಡಕು ಹಬ್ಬದ ಹಾರ್ದಿಕ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು! 🙏🏽😊🌿

Any UX folks here? We at @mundhebanni are building a community forum and would love to get an expert eye on it. If you are a UX designer, your feedback could really help us shape this into something truly useful and intuitive for the community. Please message me if you are interested to contribute. 🙏

Had the pleasure of meeting Shivashankar, CEO of SJCE-STEP, N Ravi Shankar, founder of Aim High Consulting and @jyothirmayee, founder of HiveMinds at Bengaluru today. We discussed lots of new ideas around how to take entrepreneurship more deeper into tier2/3 Karnataka.

@amrishrau This is why one-man armies crush bloated agencies. No payroll to bleed out, just pure leverage. AI favors the solo operator.

@JoshKale I just asked Claude to score 75 jobs by AI replacement risk. Some scored 90%+. The task-by-task breakdowns are brutal. Check yours before your boss does → willaireplaceme.vercel.app

Andrej Karpathy just dropped a project scoring every job in America on how likely an AI will replace it from 0-10 > Scraped all 342 occupations from the Bureau of Labor > Fed each one to an LLM with a detailed scoring rubric > Built an interactive treemap where rectangle size = number of jobs and color = how exposed that job is to AI The key signal in his scoring: if the work product is fundamentally digital and the job can be done entirely from a home office, exposure is inherently high. The scale: 0-1: Roofers, janitors 4-5: Nurses, retail, physicians 8-9: Software devs, paralegals, data analysts 10: Medical transcriptionists Average across all 342 occupations: 5.3/10. The entire pipeline is open source. BLS scraping, LLM scoring, the visualization. All of it. Much respect for the sensei this is scary and awesome

A small thank you to everyone using Claude: We’re doubling usage outside our peak hours for the next two weeks.

🚀 Cactus (YC S25) is hosting a Weekend Voice Agents Hackathon at the YC office in SF next month on the weekend of Saturday, April 18– Sunday, April 19. Build voice-controlled agents with Cactus + Google DeepMind, meet fellow builders, and compete for prizes — including a guaranteed YC interview. I’ll be judging — hope to see you there! 👋 Apply Here: events.ycombinator.com/voice-agents-h…

We made a home for voice AI projects built with Smallest AI. Developers have been building incredible things with our APIs. So we built showcase.smallest.ai - a curated gallery where developers can explore, learn, and share what's possible with voice AI. > Live demos you can try right now > Open-source code you can fork > 35+ real projects across STT, TTS, and voice agents If you've built something with Smallest AI, this is your stage. If you haven't, this is your starting point. Do it now. And, submit your project. The link is in the comments.

India sells nearly 1 million tractors every year. Now imagine a tractor that costs the same as diesel, but runs at a fraction of the operating cost. In the upcoming @mundhebanni episode, we speak with Anoop Srikantaswamy, founder of Moonrider, a deep tech startup building electric tractors designed in India for farms across the world. From engineering challenges in dusty Indian fields to why they chose tractors instead of cars, this is a fascinating conversation about innovation where it matters the most. Trailer out now 👇 Subscribe to Mundhe Banni to get notified: @mundhebanni" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@mundhebanni @akaranth @Shishir_S_U @kodlady

you gotta join or regret later :(((