India · 24 October 2026
Available nowChariot launches real‑time ASR model for ten Indian languages
Chariot released Chariot-1-ASR Realtime on Oct 22, a speech‑recognition model that transcribes spoken words in real time across Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Punjabi, Odia and Indian English; testing on 79 public sets (≈153 k recordings) showed 26% fewer errors than Google Gemini 3.5 Transcribe and 9% fewer than Sarvam’s Saaras v4.
Benchmarks are the company's own; not independently verified.
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Chariot‑1‑ASR Realtime cuts error rates 26% versus Gemini 3.5, prompting product managers to consider Indian‑language transcription for new markets.
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