MeitY’s VoicERA is designed to enable real-time speech and conversational services across public and private systems.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), through the Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD) under the Digital India Corporation (DIC), officially launched VoicERA at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. The launch was led by DIBD CEO Amitabh Nag. VoicERA is an open-source, end-to-end Voice AI stack designed as a Digital Public Good (DPG) to function as a national execution layer for multilingual voice and language AI.
VoicERA is deployed directly on the BHASHINI National Language Infrastructure, expanding BHASHINI’s focus from translation and text capabilities to real-time speech systems, conversational AI, and multilingual telephony at a population scale. This integration advances India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) by making voice the primary, natural interface for public service access.
VoicERA is engineered to be open, pluggable, interoperable, cloud-deployable, and on-premises ready. By modularising the voice stack, the platform reduces duplicate development efforts and eliminates vendor lock-in across public and private systems. The stack was developed and launched by DIBD alongside the EkStep Foundation, in collaboration with COSS, IIIT Bengaluru, and AI4Bharat (IIT Madras).
The system enables rapid onboarding of voice-enabled citizen services across key sectors, including agriculture advisories, education support, scheme discovery, livelihood services, citizen feedback collection, and grievance redressal. It is designed by MeitY for secure, scalable deployment across government departments, research institutions, and the broader innovation ecosystem, ensuring equitable digital access regardless of literacy or language barriers.
