♦ The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) launched VoicERA, an open-source, end-to-end Voice AI stack, at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi.

♦ Deployed on the BHASHINI National Language Infrastructure, VoicERA establishes a national execution layer for multilingual Voice and Language AI.

♦ Designed to be open, pluggable, interoperable, cloud-deployable, and on-premises ready, the platform enables secure and scalable deployment of voice systems across government, research institutions, and innovation ecosystems.

♦ Modularising the voice stack reduces duplication of effort and eliminates vendor lock-in.

♦ The integration of VoicERA strengthens BHASHINI’s role as India’s national language infrastructure, expanding its capabilities from translation and language technologies to real-time speech systems, conversational AI, and multilingual telephony at a population scale.