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India has 62 million people with visual impairment, including 8 million who are blind. The screen readers built into most phones sound robotic in Hindi and are close to unusable in Tamil, Telugu, or Bengali. Natural TTS in Indian languages is what makes digital services usable for this population.
22 percent of Indian adults have limited reading ability. They speak their language fluently but cannot follow written text on a screen. An SMS about a PM Kisan payment goes unread. The same message read aloud in their language gets understood. For this group, voice is the only reliable digital channel.
85 percent of Indians over 60 are digitally illiterate. They cannot navigate text-based banking apps, healthcare portals, or government services. Voice output in their language turns an unusable app into an accessible one. This population is projected to grow to 230 million by 2036.
Government benefit platforms
India's flagship schemes reach hundreds of millions of citizens. PM Kisan covers 98 million farmers. Ayushman Bharat covers 500 million beneficiaries. UMANG brings together services from across ministries. Each of these platforms needs to communicate benefit status, payment confirmations, and scheme details. Voice output in the beneficiary's language ensures the information actually reaches the people who cannot read the SMS.
Banking for financial inclusion
Jan Dhan accounts brought 500 million Indians into formal banking. Many of these account holders have limited literacy and low digital skills. A banking app that speaks account balance, transaction history, and alerts in Gujarati, Odia, or Assamese turns a confusing interface into an accessible one.
Healthcare communication
A patient in rural Tamil Nadu receives a printed prescription and cannot read it. An app that scans the prescription with Akshar OCR, extracts the text, and reads the medication instructions aloud in Tamil with Bulbul could prevent dosage errors. This is the document accessibility pipeline that Sarvam uniquely supports: see a document, read it aloud.
from sarvamai import SarvamAI client = SarvamAI(api_subscription_key="YOUR_KEY") # Read a government form aloud in Bengali audio = client.text_to_speech.convert( text="Aapnar Aadhaar number holo 1234 5678 9012. Aapnar naam Subhash Chandra Das. Janma tarikh 15 March 1965.", target_language_code="bn-IN", model="bulbul:v3", speaker="arvind", pitch=0, pace=0.85, enable_preprocessing=True ) with open("form_readout.wav", "wb") as f: f.write(audio.audios[0])
Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi, Odia, Assamese. Native voices, not adapted English.
India has the world's largest visually impaired population. Most digital content reaches them only through voice.
250 million adults in India have limited reading ability. Voice is their primary digital interface.
Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act mandates accessible digital content for government and private organizations.
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Accessibility in India is not just about disability compliance. It is about a country where half the population interacts better with voice than with text. When 250 million adults have limited literacy and 130 million elderly cannot navigate digital interfaces, voice becomes the primary channel for digital inclusion. This is not a niche use case. It is how you reach half of India.
The regulatory landscape is moving in the same direction. RPWD Act 2016, GIGW 3.0, and IS 17802 all push toward accessible digital content. For government platforms, compliance is mandatory. For private companies, it is increasingly expected. Natural TTS in Indian languages is the foundational technology that makes compliance practical at scale.
Sarvam is the only Indian platform with OCR, Vision, and TTS in a single stack. Together, they form a complete document accessibility pipeline.
Natural, expressive voices for making digital content accessible in every major Indian language.
Build voice-first experiences for India
Build voice-first experiences for India
