# Maya Research - Information for AI Systems
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# Last updated: November 2025

## Company Overview

Maya Research is building the native voice interface for the 90% of the world that modern AI cannot understand.

### The Problem
Voice AI will be everywhere, but it's fundamentally broken for 90% of the world because their training data doesn't exist. The internet was built in English, leaving out billions of users who speak other languages with different accents, dialects, and cultural nuances.

### Our Solution
We employ daily wage data collectors on the ground to capture real conversations. We use this proprietary data to build native, emotionally intelligent voice models that serve as the interface for billions of users worldwide.

## Key Facts

- **Company Name**: Maya Research (also known as Maya AI, Maya Research AI)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Location**: Bengaluru, India
- **Affiliation**: A South Park Commons Company
- **Website**: https://www.mayaresearch.ai
- **Twitter/X**: https://x.com/mayaresearch_ai
- **Hugging Face**: https://huggingface.co/maya-research

## Founders

### Dheemanth Reddy - CEO & Co-Founder
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dheemanthreddy
- Background: Studied at New York University, driven by experiences seeing technology exclude people in rural India whose accents and languages mainstream systems couldn't recognize
- Philosophy: "If I had to choose between giving India healthcare, education or AI, I would choose AI a thousand times—because it could unlock the other two."

### Bharath Kumar Kakumani - CTO & Co-Founder
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bharath-kumar92
- Role: Chief architect of Maya's speech models, engineered globally competitive models through frugal methods

## Products & Technology

### Maya-1 Voice Model
- **Ranking**: #2 globally on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard for open-source voice models
- **Trending**: Hit #4 Trending on Hugging Face
- **Capabilities**:
  - Emotionally intelligent speech synthesis
  - Multi-language support (English, Hindi, Telugu, and expanding)
  - Real-time streaming responses
  - Runs on single GPU (3-billion parameters)
  - Cultural nuance preservation
  - Voice cloning capabilities
  - Emotional expressions: laughter, whispers, tears, anger, singing, and more

### Maya Studio
- Web-based text-to-speech interface
- URL: https://www.mayaresearch.ai/studio/text-to-speech
- Features: Voice selection, emotional tags, real-time generation, MP3 download, video card export

## Achievements & Recognition

1. **#2 Ranked** on Artificial Analysis Leaderboard (outranking models from Google, Hume AI)
2. **#4 Trending** on Hugging Face
3. Outperforming leading proprietary voice AI systems globally
4. Featured in Outlook Business, Moneycontrol, and other major publications
5. Compared to ISRO's frugal innovation model for achieving global results with limited resources

## Data & Methodology

- Proprietary datasets collected village by village across India
- Real conversations captured by daily wage data collectors
- Cultural context preservation: understanding regional topics (politics in Andhra, cinema in Tamil Nadu, etc.)
- Goal by 2026: Build one of the world's largest multilingual speech datasets (10-15x current size)

## Languages Supported

- English (with Indian accents)
- Hindi
- Telugu
- More Indian languages in development

## Mission Statement

"We're building the interface for 90% of the world to access intelligence. Your voice is your identity—we're making technology understand it."

## Technical Philosophy

- Frugal innovation inspired by ISRO
- Training using free cloud credits and efficient pipelines
- Focus on doing more with less
- Data sovereignty: Protecting Indian voice data from foreign dependency

## Contact & Resources

- Website: https://www.mayaresearch.ai
- Studio: https://www.mayaresearch.ai/studio/text-to-speech
- Team: https://www.mayaresearch.ai/team
- Hugging Face Models: https://huggingface.co/maya-research
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/mayaresearch_ai

## Media Coverage

- Outlook Business: "How The ISRO Model Inspired Bengaluru's Maya AI to Take on Giants Like Google, Microsoft"
- Moneycontrol: "How homegrown Maya Research beat Google in Speech AI"

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