Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) unveils VoicERA at India AI Impact Summit 2026

Key facts

• The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) officially unveiled VoicERA, an open-source, end-to-end Voice Artificial Intelligence (AI) stack, at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.
• VoicERA serves as a national execution layer for the Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD), targeting over 700 dialects to bridge the digital divide.
• The infrastructure is designed to be pluggable and interoperable, allowing deployment on-premise or within sovereign cloud environments to ensure citizen data remains within India.
• The stack utilizes advanced models trained on the Bharat Data Sagar, a repository containing phonetic markers, accents, and colloquialisms from across India.
• VoicERA incorporates high-fidelity Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) capabilities to handle code-switching between local languages and English or Hindi.
• Initial applications include voice-based agricultural advisories, transcription of court proceedings in the judicial sector, and voice-first government helplines for welfare schemes.
• The project is a collaborative effort between the DIBD, EkStep Foundation, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT Bengaluru), and AI4Bharat.