Featured in this year’s Next Generation Leaders by Time Magazine, Umesh Sachdev, CEO and co-founder of Chennai-based speech analytics startup, Uniphore Software Systems, was selected for his work toward “Building a Phone That Can Understand Almost Any Language.”
Uniphore’s Akeira, a virtual assistant, allows consumers to ask questions in their language of choice, and get the desired answer. The responses are formulated based on a series of keywords to ensure seamless flow of accurate results to a query placed in multiple ways, says the company. It provides support for more than 25 global languages and over 150 dialects and is being used by over 5 million people mostly in India.
“We wanted to do something that would have a mass impact,” explains Sachdev.
http://time.com/4352597/umesh-sachdev-next-generation-leaders/
Last updated: December 26th, 2025
