Only providers that support Kannada
Deepgram has no Kannada speech recognition and Cartesia has no Kannada voice. Vocily checks every provider against the agent's languages and greys out the ones that can't serve Kannada before you save.
Languages · Kannada · ಕನ್ನಡ
Kannada voice AI, built only on models that speak Kannada.
Several well-known speech and voice providers have no Kannada at all. Vocily only offers the ones that do, so a Kannada agent never fails at the start of a call, and it follows Bengaluru callers who switch to English.
On the phone in Kannada
4.4 crore people speak Kannada as their first language.
Mainly in Karnataka (Census of India, 2011). Here is what it takes for an agent to sound right to them.
Bengaluru mixes languages
Callers move between Kannada, English and Hindi. Sarvam Saaras v4 and Soniox transcribe Kannada-English speech as spoken, and the agent can follow a caller into English.
Four Kannada voice providers
Vocily AI, Sarvam Bulbul, Smallest and ElevenLabs voices all speak Kannada, so you can still audition voices and pick the one that fits your brand.
Sample call
A Kannada delivery rescheduling call
An outbound delivery call where the customer moves the slot to the next morning.
ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ, ನಾನು QuickShip ಇಂದ ಮಾತಾಡ್ತಿದೀನಿ. ನಿಮ್ಮ parcel ಇವತ್ತು ಸಂಜೆ deliver ಆಗುತ್ತೆ. ನೀವು ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇರ್ತೀರಾ?
Hello, I'm calling from QuickShip. Your parcel will be delivered this evening. Will you be home?
ಇಲ್ಲ, ನಾನು office ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಇರ್ತೀನಿ. ನಾಳೆ ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾಡೋಕೆ ಆಗುತ್ತಾ?
No, I'll be at the office. Can you do it tomorrow morning?
ಖಂಡಿತ. ನಾಳೆ ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ 9 ರಿಂದ 12 ರ ಒಳಗೆ deliver ಮಾಡ್ತೀವಿ. Address Indiranagar, 100 Feet Road ಸರಿ ಅಲ್ವಾ?
Sure. We'll deliver tomorrow between 9 and 12. The address is Indiranagar, 100 Feet Road, correct?
ಹೌದು, ಸರಿ.
Yes, that's right.
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು, delivery ನಾಳೆ ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆಗೆ reschedule ಮಾಡಿದ್ದೀನಿ.
Thank you, I've rescheduled the delivery to tomorrow morning.
The new slot is sent to the dispatch system through an API tool.
Illustrative — real call flows run end-to-end inside Vocily AI
What runs a Kannada agent
Models that support Kannada.
Only providers that actually support Kannada (kn-IN) are offered for a Kannada agent. Pick one of each, per agent.
01
Speech-to-text
- Providers
- Sarvam Saaras v4 · Soniox
02
Voices
- Providers
- Vocily AI · Sarvam Bulbul v3 · Smallest · ElevenLabs
03
Language model
- Models
- OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini or Sarvam-105B, chosen per agent
04
Price
- Voice
- From ₹3.10/min, the same as every other language.
- Telephony
- Free on your own Plivo or VoBiz account, or ₹0.40/min on an Indian number from Vocily (₹499/month).
Common questions
What teams ask before they switch.
Neither supports Kannada: Deepgram has no Kannada speech recognition and Cartesia has no Kannada voice. Vocily greys them out for Kannada agents rather than letting a call fail when it starts.
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