Josh Talks Introduces The World’s First Open Full-Duplex Conversational AI Model in Hindi

Josh Talks, a company building large-scale speech datasets and evaluation infrastructure for AI,, today announced the development of the world’s first full-duplex conversational AI model in Hindi, an AI system capable of listening and speaking at the same time, enabling voice interactions that more closely resemble natural human conversation. 

Unlike traditional voice assistants that operate in a turn-based format, where users must finish speaking before the system responds, Josh Talks model can listen and speak simultaneously. This allows it to acknowledge users mid-sentence, respond in real time, and handle interruptions without breaking the flow of conversation.

Shobhit Banga, Co-Founder, Josh Talks, said, “Voice AI has learned to recognise speech and generate speech. What it has not yet learned well is how to participate in conversation. This research shows that when models are trained on large-scale natural dialogue, they can begin to learn the rhythm of how people actually speak ...