Powering Voice AI for India (@ycombinator f25)

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Voice, innovation, and ideas are about to align in perfect harmony under one roof! Take your seats for the biggest orchestration ever... this November, in Bengaluru. Symphony is coming alive! Stay tuned!
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India loves to talk, and even more so in its own dialects, which change with every pincode. We’re at home in English on calls with colleagues, immediately switch to Kannada when it comes to confirming the delivery location, and go on to speak in Tamil on a call back home... sometimes all of them on the same call. The motive remains to express; the language ceases to matter, until it comes to voice agents.This is what we set out to solve when we pledged to build for India. We knew exactly the complexity we had signed up for, and yet the unpredictability of languages for Indian callers was harder to solve than we could have imagined. That voyage set the course for what you now see as LiD on @bolna_dev. LiD begins working the moment a call is picked up. It detects the language spoken in real time and lets the agent switch to the language the callee is most at home in. The moment a new language is spoken, the voice agent switches to the best speech models for it, mid-call, without ever losing context. The same agent can cater to a woman in Bengali inquiring about her Durgo Pujo order, alongside a man in Maharashtra wondering if his order is delayed. With LiD, you never have to worry about the default language of your agent. A little behind the scenes ft. @siddharth17 [our Head of Product], @maitreya_wagh [our Co-founder and believer in multilingualism] and the team. Go give it a try at platform.bolna.ai, if you haven't yet!
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We are officially only a month away from Symphony. Behind the curtain, the preparations are in full swing, and our team at Bolna is ready to bring Symphony, India’s Flagship Voice AI Summit, to life. It will be a day packed with speaker panels, fireside chats, a Buildathon for learners, live demonstrations, product experiences, an awards night and curated networking sessions with people working in the voice AI industry. Early-bird tickets will vanish into thin air by this Friday. Get your ticket now and claim perks like: 1. A 3-month @WisprFlow subscription 2. ₹2,500 in @SarvamAI credits 3. $100 worth of @bolna_dev credits Save your seat for the big day: bolna.ai/symphony
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When you launch your first voice agent, the first few days usually go into listening to calls. It usually turns into a lot of back and forth, where you change something, test it and then go back to the calls again. With @bolna_dev Pilots, our team is with you from day one. You get a dedicated Success Manager and priority support on a WhatsApp group with your team, and every week we get on a 1:1 call to go through your calls and refine your agent together. We work with you on setup and integrations too. P.S. You also get discounted pricing, early access to beta features and subaccounts during the pilot. Open to new users, for more details check: bolna.ai/pilots
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This could be your best shot at a direct interview with @ycombinator ! Drumrolls please! @bolna_dev 's Buildathon has officially entered the chat where you bring any idea and give it a voice, whether that’s a new product or a voice layer on something you’ve already shipped. The top 10 teams win tickets to Symphony, India’s Flagship Voice AI Summit, where the top 3 will also pitch live on the Abhyas stage. Prizes for the top 3: 1st place: ₹50,000 + an interview with @greybaker YC Partner 2nd place: ₹40,000 + goodies 3rd place: ₹30,000 + goodies Every builder gets credits from our sponsors @plivo, @Exotel, @SarvamAI, @cartesia, @DeepgramAI and @KalpaLabsAI Apply solo or as a team of up to 4. Applications close on 31st October, link to register : bolna.ai/symphony/buildathon
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Like all things in life, success rarely comes on the first try. And the same is true for our business processes - whether we're trying to reach out to leads, conduct surveys or nudging people to place an order. Instead, the flow needs to be tuned to your customer. Your customer missed a call? Picked it up but rescheduled it? Asked to be contacted over Whatsapp instead? Requires additional info over email? Or you need to gather context from your CRM before calling? Workflows at @bolna_dev now packages all of these functionalities alongside your voice agent to ensure the reach is maximised. Go give it a try on Bolna's playground today: bolna.ai/blog/taking-the-sec…
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Replying to @AmityBengaluru
@AmityBengaluru built voice ai agents today using @bolna_dev mcp
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The curtains have parted to unveil all three halls of Symphony. Sur is where 600+ attendees will share one room with 42+ speakers. Abhyas is where teams will learn and solve problems in tech and AI alongside experts. Mehfil is home to booths, experiences, demos and plenty of conversations around Voice AI. Watching what started as hums a few weeks ago now coming to life has been a thrill and we hope it sparks something for you too.. Come join us on the big day this November. The link to get your early bird tickets and save your seat: bit.ly/4dxJjYr
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The first chair in the ensemble has been filled, and it shimmers like a diamond beneath the stage lights. We’re excited to welcome Google Cloud as a Diamond Sponsor. With them opening the orchestra, the performance is set to sound bigger than ever. The countdown to India’s flagship Voice AI summit, Symphony, continues with more names joining us. Link to get the early bird tickets : bolna.ai/symphony 📍 20th November | The Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru
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graph agents have been live on @bolna_dev for 2–3 months and are now generally available. been getting a lot of DMs asking how they work and how to get started, so here’s a closer look 👇 bolna.ai/blog/get-started-wi…
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Mehfil is a gathering where everyone gets a turn to be heard. That's what our third hall at Symphony is about. This is where you’ll get to try the products shaping Voice AI in India, experience demos and talk to the teams who built them, and stay for the conversations that spill (there will be a lot of them) Early bird tickets are live, and we’d love for you to be a part of our Mehfil, come join us. Link to the early bird tickets: bolna.ai/symphony?utm_source…
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For the longest time, we considered Voice AI to be inadept for real-world conversations that would hold multiple turns. The accusation was fair with agents getting broken and hallucinating whenever the prompt bloated with way too many specific instructions to navigate from. Fortunately, the Voice AI mavericks wouldn't concede to it and came back with the adaptation of an idea that's been floating for more than 70 years now... the solution is what you now see as Graph Agents on Bolna (YC F25). Read more on the origin story of Graph Agents while we walk you through step-by-step process of building one: bolna.ai/blog/graph-agents-o… So, your customers can have conversations that flow seamlessly with the outcomes you desire.
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Symphony 2026 has to be marked on your calendar, and here's why: Symphony is India’s flagship Voice AI summit, which brings 1000+ attendees and 42+ speakers, including leaders, investors, builders, product leaders and founders from the Voice AI industry all under one roof. This is the perfect time to get your hands on the early bird tickets because the first 200 people will be getting: 1) A 3-month free Wispr Flow subscription 2) ₹2,500 in Sarvam credits 3) $100 worth of Bolna credits Swipe through to know why you can’t miss it and why November 20 is one date the Voice AI community in India has been circling. The link to get your hands on the early bird tickets: bolna.ai/symphony?utm_source…
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first in my bloodline to make folks build with @bolna_dev claude connector thankyou for having me bmsit
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Introducing the Bolna MCP connector, now available in Claude. Connect your Bolna account once from the Claude Directory and you can run your voice agents from the chat. A few things to ask it: • "How did my support agent's calls go this week?" Claude reads the call history and full transcripts, then tells you what's going wrong. • "Add our refund policy to its prompt." Claude edits the agent, but only after you approve it. • "Create a Hindi version of the agent." Claude creates a new agent for you. Call batches, account details and wallet balance are all in there too. Go give it a try: claude.ai/directory/bolna?ut…
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first in my bloodline to have an MCP on the official @claudeai directory🚀 claude.ai/directory/bolna @bolna_dev @tanishasharmax
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Abhyas is where the builders will take over and ideas will come to life with practice and discipline. Teams will settle in to work on complex problems in tech and AI, learning alongside experts and experimenting with features that haven't been released yet. Along the way, group sessions will put builders in conversation with world-renowned researchers, before they present their builds. The third hall is still tuning up, but the early bird window is open and there's a seat waiting. Link for the tickets: bolna.ai/symphony?utm_source…
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Last week, our founder & CTO @xan_ps took the stage at a Voice AI evening in Bengaluru. On a panel moderated by Pratyush Choudhary from @ActivateSignal, Prateek spoke about how the Voice AI industry is taking shape and what that means for teams building in it today. Props to @ElevenLabs, a long time partner whose voices sit behind many of our agents, and to @ActivateSignal for hosting! Here’s a few snippets from the evening :)
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A Bolna voice AI agent just got off a 30-minute wealth advisory call. Hallucinations? Zero. How long was the prompt? Never more than 5 lines. Here's how Graph Agents on @bolna_dev made it possible. When a use case warrants a complex call flow and variable responses from your customers, the agent depends on the information provided by the customer to act on the next steps. With a single-prompt format, the agent fails to demonstrate the required intelligence, as the format inadvertently prevents the back-and-forth between steps. Graph Agents break the call flow into nodes with each node getting its own task and dedicated prompt. Think of it as a complex flow divided in micro tasks. Edges decide what happens next: rules followed first, then the routing LLM, then a re-ask if nothing matches. Tools handle transfers, hang-ups and live lookups only where allowed or expected. [1/2]
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What you get with Graph Agents is a voice agent that you can trace, test and trust, step by step. If your agent works in stages, you must build it as a graph. Try it out now: platform.bolna.ai/dashboard?…
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