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Editorial hero on shipping 22 Indian languages in one app and the real cost of Indic localization

AI & Mobile · Aug 3, 2026 · 17 min read

22 scheduled languages, one app: what Indic localization actually costs to ship in 2026

India has 22 scheduled languages and 121 languages recorded in the 2011 Census. Translation APIs are cheap and commoditised. What actually breaks an Indic launch is text shaping, font selection and string handling

Manu Shukla

#indic-languages #app-localization #bhashini

Isometric illustration of a multilingual voice AI pipeline over a map of India, chaining speech, translation and synthesis

AI Strategy · Jul 17, 2026 · 12 min read

VoicERA on BHASHINI: what it takes to ship a multilingual voice agent in India in 2026

MeitY launched VoicERA, an open-source voice AI stack, on BHASHINI on 18 February 2026. Here is the architecture underneath it, where the 22-language coverage stops, and how building on it compares with Azure Speech

Manu Shukla

#voicera #bhashini #voice AI