A comprehensive list of top startup companies who are building quite a reputation in the tech domain through voice tech offerings. Voice AI has been around since IBM introduced it in 1961 through IBM Shoebox. It was the first digital speech recognition tool which at its time could recognize 16 words and 9 digits. Today, using voice AI, developers can train neural network models, create human like voices, chatbots and more. The voice AI tech startups space is booming and now encompasses various avenues such as voice analytics, speech recognition, artificial voice synthesis, voice transcription, voice recognition, among others.

India is currently the hotbed for emerging technologies like AI & machine learning. But the need of the hour is "Deep Tech" which fundamentally is a connection of different types of technologies, not just AI & ML but also computer vision, image processing, blockchain, and AR/VR, to come up with a solution that is not trivial but a revolutionary one. However, there are a few limitations such as the skills of the engineering graduates in India to meet this demand, the quality of data in India continues to be an issue because of the diversity of demographics, languages etc. in the Indian market which could slow the momentum. With a passion for solving such issues in India, Bangalore-based Dhiyo is utilising AI and machine learning to help the folks to solve job market inefficiencies for the blue-collar sector by building a quick prototype using Google Assistant. Founded by Santhosh SS in 2018, Dhiyo is a Conversational AI interface for the job seekers in the informal sector who can create their profile or resume just by speaking to their smartphone through a series of voice commands in their own native language.