Maya 2 Native Voice: India's Voice AI Climbs to #2 Globally on Voice Arena, Now Speaking 11 Languages
It moves Indian voice AI beyond customer care and into entirely new consumer experiences.
Maya 2 is ranked #1 on the Voice of India leaderboard and is built for the way India actually speaks.
This release supports 11 major Indian languages:
Hindi (हिन्दी), Telugu (తెలుగు), Bengali (বাংলা), Gujarati (ગુજરાતી), Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), Malayalam (മലയാളം), Marathi (मराठी), Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ), Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ), Tamil (தமிழ்), and Indian English.
For too long, voice AI has been designed mostly for customer support. Useful, but rarely something you would want to spend time with.
Maya 2 Native Voice is built for more. Voices that carry character. Voices with rhythm, warmth, and expression. Voices that make entirely new consumer products and creative applications possible.
Our goal is simple: speech that retains identity, rhythm, and emotional texture across languages.
Maya 2 Native Voice brings us closer to expressive, low-latency, production-ready speech for India.
Try it here: https://lnkd.in/efPKsxBe
Accurate: Maya 2 Native supports Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, and Indian English — Maya Research's own announcement confirms Maya 2 Native speaks 10 major Indian languages plus Indian English, matching the 11-language claim in the post. Maya Research is a real Bengaluru-based startup founded in 2025 by BS Dheemanth Reddy and Bharath Kumar Kakumani, building Indic voice AI. Strong leaderboard performance is also real: Maya-2-Native is the #1 streaming TTS model on the Voice Arena Hindi TTS Leaderboard, and in the overall leaderboard it debuted at rank #2 globally.
Inaccurate or unverifiable: The claim that Maya 2 is ranked #1 on a "Voice of India leaderboard" appears to be a mistaken or fabricated name. There is no evidence Maya 2 tops something called the "Voice of India leaderboard." The real, verifiable ranking is on Voice Arena, where it is #1 in the Hindi streaming TTS category and #2 overall globally, not #1 overall. Separately, "Voice of India" is actually the name of an unrelated academic speech-recognition benchmark, an ASR dataset built by IIT Madras and Josh Talks, not a TTS leaderboard Maya tops. The post appears to conflate or invent the leaderboard name. The "ranked #1" framing is also an overstatement, since the sourced claim is #1 in a specific sub-category (Hindi streaming) while the overall global rank is #2, not #1. Lastly, framing lines such as "moves Indian voice AI beyond customer care" and "voices that carry character" are marketing language and opinion rather than independently verifiable claims.