For most AI companies, voice remains a layer built on top of text. Users speak, a large language model generates a response, and a text-to-speech engine reads it back. However, Bengaluru- and San Francisco-based Maya Research believes that approach misses the larger opportunity.
Founded by New York University graduates Dheemanth Reddy and Bharath Kumar Kakumani in 2025, the startup is building what it calls a "voice interface for the majority of the world" - conversational AI models designed to speak, think and respond like native speakers across languages, dialects and cultural contexts.
