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Built for the Way IndiaActually Speaks

From Hindi and Tamil to Bhojpuri, Maithili, and Chhattisgarhi, Horizon Indic ispurpose-built for India's multilingual conversations and mixed-languagespeech. Production-ready speech recognition designed for contactcenters, banking, healthcare, and government applications.

11.9%

Average Hindi WER

55+

Indian Languages

First Ever

Benchmarks for 4 Dialects

Native

Code-Switching Support

Language Coverage

India Doesn't Speak in One Language

Most speech recognition systems stop at official languages. Real conversations don't. Customers move between Hindi and English. Families speak Bhojpuri at home but Hindi at work. Government services receive calls in dialects that many AI systems have never evaluated.

Horizon Indic was built for these conversations - combining state-of-the-art recognition across India's scheduled languages with industry-leading support for regional dialects and multilingual speech.

Most speech recognition systems stop at official languages. Real conversations don't.
हिन्दी
Hindi · North & Central
"नमस्ते, मैं आपकी कैसे मदद कर सकता हूँ?"
600M+
Speakers
< 8%
WER
180ms
Latency
Benchmarks

Industry-Leading Accuracy AcrossIndian Languages

Lower Error Rates Across Every Major Benchmark. Hindi WER 11.9% and It Doesn't Stop at "Hindi".

SystemKathbathKB HardCommon VoiceFLEURSIndicTTSRESPINGramvaaniAvg
Google Cloud STT14.3016.7020.8019.4018.30n/a59.9024.90
AI4Bharat IndicWav2Vec12.2016.2020.2018.3015.00n/a42.1020.70
Microsoft Azure STT13.6015.1014.6024.3015.20n/a42.3020.80
AI4Bharat IndicWhisper10.3012.0015.0011.407.60n/a26.8013.80
Shunya HEEP-Indic (Horizon Indic)8.538.979.9611.046.5912.0525.9811.90

14% relative gain over IndicWhisper, 40% relative gain over the next strongest commercial system. First-ever ASR coverage on Bhojpuri, Chhattisgarhi, Magahi, and Maithili (RESPIN benchmark) - dialects that don't appear on any competitor's leaderboard because no competitor has evaluated on them.

Capabilities

Optimized for Indian Speech

Streaming & Batch

Same accuracy across both modes.

Speaker Diarization

Separate speakers even in multilingual conversations.

Intent & Sentiment

Extract customer intent alongside transcription.

Native Code-Switching

Hindi-English, Tamil-English, Bengali-English, Marathi-English and more.

Proper Noun Biasing

Customer names, Village names, Government schemes, Addresses, Organizations, Brand names

Noise Robustness

Built for phone calls, roadside conversations, and low-bandwidth audio.

Why Horizon

Why Horizon Indic

Horizon IndicHorizon Indic
Generic Multilingual STTGeneric STT
Indian languages
55+
Limited
Bhojpuri
Rare
Magahi
Rare
Maithili
Rare
Native code-switching
Partial
Government vocabulary
Custom
Indian benchmarks
Extensive
Limited

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