Flipkart Acquires AI-led Speech Recognition Startup Liv.ai
India's most popular e-commerce platform Flipkart has announced that it has acquired an AI-led speech recognition startup Liv.ai. The primary purpose of this acquisition is to boost up an end-to-end conversational shopping experience for its customers.
Along with this, voice integration could be available in some parts of the Flipkart platform as soon as 6-8 months. Liv.ai was started in 2015 by Subodh Kumar, Kishore Mundra and Sanjeev Kumar. The company had developed a speech to text platform supporting 10 Indian languages the constitute Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam.
“We work on speech recognition and surrounding technologies and these will be extremely valuable to any company that wants to target the Indian customer base of 100-200 ...