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Navana.ai Launches Bodhi TTS Voice AI Model in 10 Indian Languages
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Moneycontrol•24-09-2026, 10:29
Navana.ai Launches Bodhi TTS Voice AI Model in 10 Indian Languages
- •Navana.ai has launched Bodhi TTS, a text-to-speech voice AI model supporting 10 Indian languages and over 50 voices, priced at Rs 12 per 10,000 characters.
- •The model supports Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Malayalam, Kannada, English, and Gujarati, generating audio in under 100 milliseconds.
- •Bodhi TTS includes pronunciation controls for enterprises to upload dictionaries and supports zero-shot voice cloning via API with a few seconds of reference audio.
- •Built and trained in-house, Bodhi TTS is approximately five times smaller than comparable architectures, allowing it to run within an enterprise's data center for enhanced security.
- •Navana.ai offers Bodhi TTS at a competitive price, significantly lower than competitors like ElevenLabs and Sarvam AI, with free credits for new users and early access for banks, insurers, and lenders.
Key Questions Answered
Bodhi TTS is a text-to-speech voice AI model launched by Navana.ai designed for real-time applications. It supports 10 Indian languages including Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Malayalam, Kannada, English, and Gujarati.
Bodhi TTS is priced at Rs 12 per 10,000 characters, which translates to approximately Rs 0.72 per minute of generated speech. New users receive Rs 1,000 in free credits upon signing up.
Bodhi TTS features pronunciation controls allowing enterprises to upload dictionaries for product, branch, and customer names without retraining. It also supports zero-shot voice cloning using a few seconds of cached reference audio via API, and its small architecture allows deployment within an enterprise's data centre.
