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About Shunya Labs

We’re a research-forward organization building custom voice models for regional languages and mixed speech.Our goal is to make the voice interface of technology accessible to everyone.

We started our journey with Horizon, the world’s most accurate transcription model, and expanded intocomplete voice agents that can be deployed in air-gapped environments.

What Sets Us Apart

RESEARCH

First-principles research

Proprietary training methodology, model architecture, and training data to improve baseline accuracy.

MODELS

Built for you

Custom SLMs trained on your corpus, your speakers, your terminology.

SECURITY

Privacy-first solutioning

On-prem deployment and custom agent architectures for enterprise-grade security.

DEPLOYMENT

CPU-first architecture

Lightweight models designed to run on CPUs for maximum accessibility.

PLATFORM

Full-stack orchestration

End-to-end platform for agent orchestration, with custom logic for enterprise workflows.

COMMUNITY

Open-source community

Commitment to open models for the community on Hugging Face.

Meet the Team

Ritu Mehrotra

Ritu Mehrotra

Co-founder & CEO

Ritu Mehrotra
Co-founder & CEO

2X founder. Booking.com, Zomato, Mahindra. Understands how AI fails in regulated environments, and how to make it work. MBA, IIFT Delhi.

Sourav Bandyopadhyay

Sourav Bandyopadhyay

Co-founder & Chief Scientist

Sourav Bandyopadhyay
Co-founder & Chief Scientist

PhD Scholar, IIT Kharagpur. Proven LLMs will always hallucinate (using Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem). 12 patents, 18 papers, 23 world records. Obsessed with correctness.

Saheb Chatterjee

Saheb Chatterjee

SVP, Technology

Saheb Chatterjee
SVP, Technology

Two decades in AI/ML and large-scale enterprise technology: models and platforms taken from research to production, and kept reliable at scale.

Arti Khanijo

Arti Khanijo

Chief Product Officer

Arti Khanijo
Chief Product Officer

Worked with global brands like Airtel, ibibo, and Tencent with over 20 years of experience across wellness and consumer tech-known for building scalable, user-first products that create real human impact at the intersection of technology and purpose.

Built by a Team of Iconoclastic Researchers and Engineers

12

patents filed

23

world records

18+

peer-reviewed publications

204+

ASR languages supported (Horizon Universal)

Horizon:

3.10% word error rate

best in the industry.

Read the papers, benchmarks and model cards behind every number.

Join Us

We're building voice infrastructure for the next decade.

Hiring engineers, researchers and linguists who care about deployable intelligence.