Sarvam AI
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Create podcasts in Indian languages without a microphone

Sarvam text to speech turns your script into natural audio in 11 Indian languages. Pick a voice, generate your episode, and publish. No mic, no studio, no editing.

Hindi PodcastTamil PodcastTelugu PodcastAI PodcastDaily News PodcastPodcast Creator

Voices

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ShubhMale
ShreyaFemale
MananMale
IshitaFemale
32 words161/2000

The Indian language podcasting opportunity

No Barrier

Sarvam removes the production barrier

Most aspiring creators never start a podcast. They lack a quiet room, a microphone, or editing skills. Sarvam lets you write a script, pick a voice, and publish. The entire production step collapses to minutes.

Scale

Daily podcasts without daily recording

A daily news podcast in Hindi requires recording every single day. Miss a day, lose listeners. With Sarvam, your morning podcast can be scripted and generated in 10 minutes. Feed in the day's content, generate, publish. Zero recording fatigue.

Languages

Regional language podcasts are wide open

Hindi podcasts have competition. Tamil, Telugu, or Bengali? The space is nearly empty. The audience is there, searching for content that does not exist yet. The first creators to publish consistent regional language podcasts will own the niche.

Script to published episode in 15 minutes

Write your episode script

Type or paste your script in any of 11 Indian languages. Structure it with sections: intro, main content, outro. The free tool handles 2,500 characters per generation. For full episodes, use the API.

Pick voices for your show

Solo show? Pick one voice that becomes your podcast brand. Multi-voice format? Assign different voices to host, co-host, or characters. Arjun for the serious anchor, Meera for the warm co-host, Shubh for the energetic segment.

Generate and edit

Generate audio for each section. Preview, adjust pace if needed. Stitch sections together in any audio editor (Audacity, GarageBand, or similar). Add your intro music and transitions.

Publish and distribute

Upload to Spotify for Podcasters (free hosting and automatic distribution). Your podcast appears on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, and other directories. New episode every week, or every day if you can keep scripting.

from sarvamai import SarvamAI

client = SarvamAI(api_subscription_key="YOUR_KEY")

# Daily Hindi news podcast intro
audio = client.text_to_speech.convert(
    text="Namaste, yeh hai Dainik Tech Samachar, aapka rozaana ka technology podcast. Aaj ki khabar mein hum baat karenge India ke pehle AI chip ke baare mein jo Bengaluru mein banaaya gaya hai.",
    target_language_code="hi-IN",
    model="bulbul:v3",
    speaker="arjun",
    pace=1.05,
    enable_preprocessing=True
)

with open("episode_42_intro.wav", "wb") as f:
    f.write(audio.audios[0])

What AI podcasts sound like

News briefing

Daily tech news intro

Namaste, yeh hai Dainik Tech Samachar. Aaj ki khabar mein hum baat karenge India ke pehle AI chip ke baare mein jo Bengaluru mein banaaya gaya hai. Saath hi jaanenge ki kaise yeh chip desh ki AI research ko badlega.

Educational

History series episode

Aaj ke episode mein hum jaanenge Chola samrajya ke baare mein, jinhone hazaar saal pehle samudri vyaapaar mein apna sikka jamaaya tha. Rajendra Chola ne apni navy se Southeast Asia tak apna raaj failaaya.

Finance

Market update

Aaj Sensex chaar sau pachaas points upar band hua. IT sector mein teji rahi, Infosys aur TCS dono do percent se zyada chadhe. RBI ki policy meeting kal hai, jismein interest rate par faisla hoga.

Storytelling

Mythology retelling

Bahut samay pehle, jab dharti aur aasmaan ke beech mein sirf ek sagar tha, tab Samudra Manthan ki kahani shuru hoti hai. Devta aur asur, dono ne milkar ksheer sagar ko mathne ka faisla kiya.

Podcasting with Sarvam

Free To start

Generate your first episode with the free tool. No sign-up, no credit card.

11 Indian languages

Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, Odia, Punjabi, and English.

35+ Voices

Male, female, and character voices. Pick a consistent voice that becomes your podcast brand.

₹30 Per 10K characters

A 20-minute episode costs less than a cup of coffee. Scale to daily episodes without scaling costs.

Starting at ₹30 per 10K characters. View pricing

How Sarvam compares

Listener preference rate (8kHz)

Higher is better

Competitor win rate
Tie rate
Bulbul V3 win rate

ElevenLabs Flash V2.5

10.37
11.68
77.95

ElevenLabs V3 Alpha

28.14
28.21
43.64

Cartesia Sonic-3

29.43
30.49
40.08
0%20%40%60%80%100%

What creators are building

Daily news and briefings

Convert top stories into a 10-minute Hindi or Tamil audio briefing. Automate the pipeline: aggregate news, generate script, create audio via API, publish to RSS. A fresh episode every morning, fully hands-free.

Educational series

History of India in Tamil. Bhagavad Gita commentary in Hindi. UPSC current affairs in Bengali. Educational podcast niches in Indian languages are nearly empty. One consistent creator with strong content can build a loyal audience fast.

Branded podcasts

Companies launching thought leadership podcasts in Indian languages for their audience. A fintech creating a personal finance show in Hindi. A health startup producing a wellness series in Tamil. Sarvam makes it practical without a dedicated podcast team.

Story and fiction podcasts

Narrated short stories, mythology retellings, thriller serials. Use multiple voices for different characters. The audio fiction space in Indian languages is virtually untapped.

AI podcasts in Indian languages: how text to speech changes content creation

The listenership gap

Podcast listenership in India crossed 100 million in 2025, but content creation remains concentrated in English and Hindi. Search volume for Tamil podcasts, Telugu podcasts, and Bengali podcasts has grown steadily, yet fewer than 5% of Indian language podcast categories have consistent weekly shows. The gap between listener demand and content supply is where AI text to speech creates a new category of creator: someone with domain knowledge and a script, but no recording setup.

How TTS for podcasts differs

Text to speech for podcasts works differently from text to speech for IVR or notifications. Podcast listeners expect warmth, pacing variation, and a voice they recognize episode after episode. Sarvam's Bulbul V3 model delivers this through 35+ voices optimized for long-form narration at 24kHz studio quality. Creators select a voice once and it becomes their show's identity across hundreds of episodes.

The production workflow

The production workflow is what makes AI podcasts scalable. A creator writes a script, selects the language and voice, generates audio via API or the free tool, adds intro music in any editor, and publishes to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or JioSaavn. Total time per episode: 15 to 20 minutes. For daily shows like news briefings, market updates, or current affairs, this workflow runs on a cron job with zero manual recording. One script translated via Sarvam Translate produces episodes in 11 languages from a single source.

Turn one podcast into eleven

Write your episode once. Translate it into 11 Indian languages with Sarvam Translate, then generate audio for each with Bulbul V3. One script becomes eleven podcast feeds, each in a native voice.

  • Translate scripts across 11 languages while preserving tone and structure
  • Generate audio in each language with native-sounding voices
  • Automate the full pipeline: script, translate, generate, publish
  • Reach Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, and Marathi listeners from a single workflow

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