Samsung Phone's Voice AI Has India Link

Samsung is betting on its India research hub to lead a global push into voice-first artificial intelligence, making the country's engineers central to the development of its Galaxy AI (artificial intelligence) ecosystem.

- Rwit Ghosh

Speaking at a media roundtable in Bengaluru on Tuesday, Mohan Rao, Samsung R&D Institute India - Bengaluru (SRI-B), said India is one of the key sites outside Korea driving Samsung's AI work.

"When it is going to be completely voice-first, it depends on the research breakthroughs," Rao said. "We had so many tough challenges in front of us to make the AI models to run into the device. AI native platforms need to emerge and then bring this natural language ASRs to run very nicely. Then we can think about the completely voice-first phones."

The India AI Mission's CEO Abhishek Singh told Mint in an interview that it was preparing to make voice-first AI models for Indian languages.