--- title: "Chariot: Funding and News, AI Startup | bharat.digital" description: "Chariot: funding rounds, write-ups and news, each linked to its source. Speech AI research lab building speech recognition and text to speech models for..." url: "https://bharat.digital/startups/p/chariot/index.md" canonical: "https://bharat.digital/startups/p/chariot/" updated: "2026-11-16T04:30:15+05:30" language: "en-IN" site: "bharat.digital" --- [AI](https://bharat.digital/startups/c/ai/) # Chariot Speech AI research lab building speech recognition and text to speech models for Indian languages; IndiaAI Mission foundation model team, Delhi Follow this startup: [RSS feed](https://bharat.digital/startups/p/chariot/feed.xml). Everything below links to its source. ## Our write-ups Startup Startups & Fintech ### [IndiaAI backed Chariot launches a text to speech model that reads context, not just words, across 11 Indian languages and English](https://bharat.digital/originals/chariot-1-tts-multilingual-context-aware-speech-11-indian-languages-nov-2026/) The Delhi speech lab, formerly Gan.ai, says Chariot-1-TTS-Multilingual tops rival systems from ElevenLabs, OpenAI, AWS and Sarvam on its own benchmarks; independent tests are still to come. 15 November 2026 ยท 2 min read ## Timeline 1. 15 Nov 2026 Write-up [IndiaAI backed Chariot launches a text to speech model that reads context, not just words, across 11 Indian languages and English](https://bharat.digital/originals/chariot-1-tts-multilingual-context-aware-speech-11-indian-languages-nov-2026/) bharat.digital