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Sarvam AI Launches Kivi App to Control Mac Using 22 Indian Languages
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News18•06-10-2026, 17:15
Sarvam AI Launches Kivi App to Control Mac Using 22 Indian Languages
- •Sarvam AI has launched Kivi for Mac, a voice-powered application allowing users to dictate, draft, edit, and format text across various Mac applications using their voice.
- •The application is powered by Sarvam's Saaras V4 speech model and supports English along with all 22 constitutionally recognized Indian languages.
- •Kivi automatically identifies the spoken language and handles code-mixed speech, dialects, and noisy environments without requiring manual language switching.
- •The app offers multiple output modes including transcription, translation, verbatim transcription, transliteration, and code-mixed output.
- •Saaras V4 uses an audio encoder combined with a 3-billion-parameter hybrid state-space language model to deliver state-of-the-art performance across Indian languages.
Key Questions Answered
Kivi for Mac is a voice-powered application designed to let users dictate, draft, edit, and format text across different Mac applications. Powered by Sarvam's Saaras V4 speech model, the app supports English and all 22 constitutionally recognized Indian languages.
The Kivi application is powered by Sarvam's Saaras V4 automatic speech recognition model. This model combines an audio encoder with a 3-billion-parameter hybrid state-space language model.
Kivi supports English along with all 22 constitutionally recognized Indian languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and others. It can automatically identify spoken languages and handle code-mixed speech without requiring manual switching.
