United We Care debuts Shunya Labs for Next-Gen voice AI

In a landmark move that reimagines the future of voice-enabled AI, United We Care, the AI-first mental health pioneer, has announced the launch of Shunya Labs — a deeptech spinout built to redefine the infrastructure of speech recognition.

Billed as a “from-zero” breakthrough, Shunya Labs.AI offers a next-gen Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) engine that crushes Big Tech benchmarks across speed, accuracy, and multilingual fluency — and does it all on CPUs, making it more cost-effective, scalable, and accessible for enterprise use.

“We didn’t set out to beat benchmarks. We set out to build what didn’t exist,” said Ritu Mehrotra, Founder of United We Care. “We’ve created an AI voice infrastructure that listens like a human, operates like a machine, and prioritizes privacy as a core principle.”

Multilingual, Privacy-First, and Bharat-Ready

Unlike conventional ASR tools, Shunya Labs is tailored for India’s polyglot ecosystem. It natively understands over 32 ...