Shunya Labs wants voice infrastructure to work the way Indians speak

Most voice AI systems are trained for a speaker who rarely exists in India: someone speaking unaccented English. For Ritu Mehrotra and Sourav Bandyopadhyay, that gap became impossible to ignore while building United We Care, a company focused on mental health. Users switched between languages mid-sentence, spoke in dozens of accents, used specialised medical terminology, and raised concerns about sensitive data being routed through third-party servers, while the existing voice infrastructure str