​Demystifying Voice Stack - What Makes Voice AI Work At Scale

​📅 Session Details

​Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Time: 5:30 PM - 6:25 PM IST
Venue: Chanakya Auditorium, Sushma Swaraj Bhawan

​🎯 What This Session Is About

​Voice is the interface that matters most for the next billion AI users. But building voice systems that actually work across 22 languages, noisy environments, varied accents, and patchy connectivity requires understanding what's happening beneath the surface.

​This session unpacks the technical architecture that makes voice AI deployable at population scale. From speech recognition and synthesis to intent understanding and response generation, we'll examine the full stack: where the bottlenecks are, which components need to be sovereign versus globally sourced, and what infrastructure choices determine whether voice AI serves millions or remains confined to controlled demos.

​⭐️ Speakers

• ​Ananth Nagaraj, Founder, Gnani.ai

• ​Sunil Gupta, Co-founder, Managing Director & CEO, Yotta

• ​Maitreya Wagh, Founder, Bolna

• ​Ramesh MC, CEO, COSS

• ​Debdoot Mukherjee, Head of AI and Demand Engineering, Meesho

​This session is part of the AI Impact Summit 2026, exploring how artificial intelligence can drive meaningful social change across sectors.