Vardhan AI Community at ElevenLabs Summit Bengaluru

Vardhan AI Community was at ElevenLabs Summit Bengaluru on Tuesday, 6 October 2026, at The Leela Bhartiya — a full-day summit on where voice AI and agents are headed, hosted by ElevenLabs. Garvit attended as a delegate for the community.

The day brought together 30+ speakers: ElevenLabs co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski, Karnataka IT/BT Minister Priyank Kharge, enterprise leaders including Harshil Mathur (Razorpay) and Vikram Chopra (CARS24), Deloitte South Asia's Aditya Sudhindranath, accessibility advocates, and creators like Tanmay Bhat and Varun Mayya — a genuinely wide mix of founders, operators, government and creative voices around one table.

Voice and agents are exactly where Vardhan AI builds — AI Employees that work over calls and WhatsApp — so this was directly relevant ground for us to learn from.

The headline product news was language coverage: ElevenLabs showed how far real-time conversation across Indian languages has come, with native Hindi and Tamil support built into the core models and 12 more Indian languages added in its newer V3 Alpha model — 14 Indian languages in total now usable for voice AI. For a market as linguistically diverse as India, that was the clearest signal of where ElevenLabs is pointing its roadmap.

The bigger news of the day happened on stage: the Karnataka government, through the Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society (KITS), signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ElevenLabs — the state's first formal step into voice AI policy. It's non-binding and doesn't commit Karnataka to any procurement or deployment yet, but it sets out three real focus areas: a voice AI safety framework (deepfake detection, audio watermarking, voice-cloning consent), a voice restoration programme giving free lifetime licenses to people who've lost the ability to speak (run with Mysuru's All India Institute of Speech and Hearing), and multilingual public-service voice interfaces for grievance redressal and citizen helplines in Kannada and other state languages.

Around the keynote and the MoU signing, the day ran through panels on voice AI and agents in Indian enterprises, digital transformation in legacy industries, customer experience at scale with AI and humans working together, and AI's growing role in media, marketing and creative work — plus live product demos straight from the teams building them.

Voice AI in India is no longer just a model-quality race — it's becoming a policy conversation. A state government sitting on stage to sign an MoU on voice-cloning consent and deepfake safety, in the same room as product demos, tells you adoption and governance are now moving together, not years apart.

14 languages usable in one voice model is a real unlock for anything built for Indian customers — support lines, collections calls, outbound sales — the exact surface AI Employees operate on. The gap between "works in English" and "works in the language your customer actually speaks" keeps closing.

Our next community session is AI Builders #002 — "The New AI: Agents Are Here" — a free online session on Saturday, October 10 at 7:00 PM IST. Details and registration are below.