The Digital India BHASHINI Division, under the Digital India Corporation, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, marked a major milestone in India’s digital public infrastructure (DPI) journey with the launch of VoicERA, an open source, end to end voice artificial intelligence (AI) stack, at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.
Deployed on the BHASHINI National Language Infrastructure, VoicERA establishes a national execution layer for multilingual voice and language AI. Designed to be open, pluggable, interoperable, cloud deployable, and on premise ready, the platform enables secure and scalable deployment of voice systems across government, research institutions, and innovation ecosystems. By modularising the voice stack, it reduces duplication of effort and eliminates vendor lock in.
The integration of VoicERA strengthens BHASHINI’s role as India’s national language infrastructure, expanding its capabilities from translation and language technologies to real time speech systems, conversational AI, and multilingual telephony at population scale. Departments can rapidly onboard voice enabled citizen services across sectors including agriculture advisories, education support, livelihood services, grievance redressal, citizen feedback, and scheme discovery.
Commenting on the launch, chief executive officer (CEO), Digital India BHASHINI division, said, “With BHASHINI as national language infrastructure and VoicERA as the open execution stack, India is entering a new phase of DPI where voice becomes the most natural interface for Bharat. This framework enables secure, scalable multilingual systems while empowering innovators to build on a shared national foundation. It is about dignity, access, and ensuring every citizen can speak to the State and be understood. This marks the beginning of a new voice era, and in this era, India owns its voice.”
Meanwhile, co-founder and CEO, EkStep Foundation, said, “Over the past three years, BHASHINI has demonstrated the power of language as DPI. With VoicERA, that vision now extends to voice, strengthening equitable access for citizens at national scale.”
The launch further strengthens BHASHINI’s position as India’s population scale language and voice infrastructure, enabling secure, inclusive, and interoperable AI systems that power next generation public service delivery across sectors and geographies.
