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 Zero STT, the world’s most accurate transcription model, and expanded into complete voice agents that can be deployed in air-gapped environments.

What Sets Us Apart

PROPRIETARY

First-principles research

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

MODELS

Foundation models

We build foundation models for voice, including models that understand and produce state-of-the-art speech.

SECURITY

Privacy-first solutioning

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

ARCHITECTURE

CPU-first architecture

Lightweight models designed to run on a CPU for maximum accessibility.

ORCHESTRATION

Full stack orchestration

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

OPEN-SOURCE

Open-source community

Commitment to open models for the community on Hugging Face.

Meet the Team

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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.

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Sourav Bandyopadhyay

Co-founder & CTO

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

Abhishek Sharma profile

Abhishek Sharma

Co-founder & CBO

Built and sold TenMarks (Amazon) and Dineout (Swiggy). Sees infrastructure shifts before consensus forms ISB’Hyderabad (PGPMAX).

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Arti Khanijo

CPO

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.

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Vivek Jain

SVP Product & Engineering

Built large-scale data science solutions at Amazon. Expert at turning big ideas into small tasks and small problems into big insights. NIT Trichy.

Built by a Team of Iconoclastic Researchers and Engineers

Research Team
Patents background

12

patents

18+

peer-reviewed publications

Zero STT:

3.10%

word error rate

best in the industry.

World records background

23

world records

Research informs
production.
Production sharpens
research.

Join Us

We're building voice infrastructure for the next decade.

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