Gnani.ai Unveils India's First V2V Foundational Model Under the India AI Mission
FinTech BizNews Service
Mumbai, February 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.
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.”
