

Tushar Shinde
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@dstartupkid
Founder @VaaniHQ | Building speech models for 1B people | @iiscbangalore




In 2017, Nitesh and I had a compute window on Sahasrat, IISc's supercomputer. We weren't supposed to be there. No grant. No project. Just two people genuinely bothered by one question. Why does AI speech feel like it's performing humanness rather than just... being? We didn't have an answer. We had each other and a closing window of borrowed compute. That night didn't leave us. Seven years later, that question is a company. 16 people. 50TB of data built by hand. $2.3M in pipeline. A training regime the community said was impossible. And we're just getting started. Everything we couldn't say in a pitch deck 👇

Vaani Research Labs turns 1. 🎂 → 148,000 lines of system code written from scratch → 50TB of low-resource language data. Hand curated. → 16 people who gave everything → $2.3M in enterprise pipeline → Google Startup Accelerator. Selected from thousands. We started with one belief: imperfection is what makes us human. That can't be a feature. It has to be a different model entirely. Year one was proof. Year two is scale. Back to building.







We offered 5 people a Porsche 911 GT3 RS if they could get @WisprFlow to make a mistake It's the fastest and most accurate AI voice dictation app that's 3x more accurate than ChatGPT, Claude, or Siri. Today, we’re finally launching on Android. Download now: play.google.com/store/apps/det… As a part of the launch, we’re giving away 6 months of Wispr Flow Pro for free. Like, retweet and comment ‘Wispr Flow’ to get it. Enjoy. — Written with Wispr Flow







