Navana.ai Speech AI Software

Navana began in 2018 with a simple question: could voice interfaces close the digital gap for millions of Indians who find text-heavy apps hard to use? Brothers Raoul and Jai Nanavati spent the early years listening in rural markets and small businesses, and that work turned into a speech stack built for how Indians actually talk on the phone.

The core is Bodhi, Navana's family of proprietary speech models. They cover 12 Indian languages and more than 40 dialects and are trained on real-world Indian speech, which the company says helps with the things that break generic models: noise, people talking over each other, switching between languages mid-sentence, and strong regional accents. Navana has long worked with research partners such as IISc Bengaluru, IIT Madras, Microsoft Research, and the Gates Foundation, and with IISc it open-sourced RESPIN, a 10,000-hour speech corpus spanning dozens of dialects.

Navana sells three products on top of Bodhi. The AI Contact Center is an end-to-end platform to build, launch, and evaluate telephony voice agents, including automated quality evaluation of every conversation. The API platform offers Indian-language speech recognition and text-to-speech, including newly launched Bodhi TTS APIs. The Audio Intelligence API processes recorded calls in batches and returns transcripts, summaries, and agent performance insights.

Its customers are mostly in banking, financial services, and insurance, where data control matters, so Navana offers on-premise deployment and models trained on each client's data. The company says it has served more than 100 million voice AI minutes for Bajaj Finserv, Protean, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank, Jana Small Finance Bank, Grihum Housing Finance, and others. In September 2026 it raised 40 crore rupees in a Series A led by Ronnie Screwvala, with Antler India, Sharad Sanghi, Sandeep Singhal, and Paula Mariwala.

1. Bodhi proprietary speech models in 12 Indian languages and 40+ dialects

2. Handling of noise, overlapping speech, code-switching, and regional accents

3. AI Contact Center platform to build, launch, and manage telephony voice agents

4. Automated evaluation and quality analysis of voice agent conversations

5. Indian-language speech-to-text and Bodhi text-to-speech APIs

6. Audio Intelligence API for batch transcripts, call summaries, and performance insights

7. Use cases for sales, collections, compliance, and customer support

8. On-premise deployment and models fine-tuned on each client's data

9. Integrations with cloud partners, telephony providers, and CRMs

Navana.ai does not publish prices on its website. Access to the AI Contact Center, API platform, and Audio Intelligence API is arranged through its sales team, and enterprise deployments, including on-premise installs, are priced per engagement.

Bajaj Finserv; Protean; Ujjivan Small Finance Bank; Jana Small Finance Bank; Grihum Housing Finance