In 2016, Sourabh Gupta and Akshay Deshraj came to Bengaluru to build a startup. When they learned that farmers travel upto 20 km a day to understand a text sent by the bank, they founded Vernacular.ai, an AI-based voice assistant to help users.
Disrupting the vernacular call centre market
Published by: Team GI Youth
Published on 28, Jul 2022
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