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Kannada AI calling agents for your business

A Kannada AI calling agent calls your customers, or answers when they call, in the Kannada people speak in Bengaluru, Mysuru and Hubballi, with English words where callers use them. It handles reminders, payment follow-ups, order confirmation, lead calls and support, and passes the call to your team when a person is needed.

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The Kannada demo agent reminds a customer that their car insurance is due for renewal, for a made-up Bengaluru insurance broker. Play the customer: ask the premium, say you renewed already or ask for a callback. This is a live agent with sample data, not a recording. Calls end after 90 seconds; no phone number or sign-up needed.

What it does

Five jobs Kannada calling agents take on first.

Each one is a short, repeatable conversation with a clear outcome, which is where an agent saves a team the most time.

Reminders

Renewal, appointment and EMI reminders: “ನಾಳೆ ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ ಹತ್ತೂವರೆಗೆ appointment ಇದೆ, ಬರ್ತೀರಾ?” Outbound calling campaigns

Payment collections

Overdue payment calls that confirm the person first and log the date they give. Calling windows and retries

Order confirmation

COD and order confirmation for online shops before dispatch. The AI telecaller

Lead calls

Call back insurance, property and course enquiries within minutes, and transfer the ready buyers. Lead calls with CRM write-back

Customer support

Delivery, booking and account questions on your number, in Kannada or English. AI IVR on your number

Start from a script

Reminder, EMI, COD and lead-qualification scripts to adapt: call script templates.

How Kannada callers talk

Bengaluru Kannada is one of India's most mixed.

Bengaluru is one of India's most mixed cities, and Kannada calls there carry English, and often Hindi, Tamil or Telugu words, in a single sentence: “policy renew ಮಾಡ್ಬೇಕು”, “payment ಆಯ್ತಾ?”. Valmiki STT follows those switches without being told the language, and Pāṇini TTS reads Kannada script and the English words in one voice.

Spoken Kannada shortens the written forms: ಮಾಡಬೇಕು becomes ಮಾಡ್ಬೇಕು, ಹೋಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇನೆ becomes ಹೋಗ್ತಿದ್ದೀನಿ. Regions differ too: Bengaluru and Mysuru Kannada, the Dharwad and Hubballi Kannada of the north, and coastal Mangaluru, where many callers speak Tulu or Konkani at home.

Use ನೀವು and the respectful forms (ಹೇಳಿ, ಬನ್ನಿ) on business calls. ಸಾರ್ and ಮೇಡಂ are common on Bengaluru calls, but an agent that does not know who is on the line should use the customer's name instead.

Lines an agent might say

ನಿಮ್ಮ policy ಹದಿನೈದನೇ ತಾರೀಖು expire ಆಗುತ್ತೆ.
Your policy expires on the 15th.
ನಾಲ್ಕೂವರೆಗೆ ಬರ್ತೀರಾ?
Can you come at 4:30?
ಹನ್ನೆರಡು ಸಾವಿರದ ಐನೂರು ರೂಪಾಯಿ
₹12,500
ಒಂದೂವರೆ ಲಕ್ಷ
1.5 lakh

Numbers, dates and times

Amounts, times and registration numbers in Kannada.

Kannada amounts use ಸಾವಿರ, ಲಕ್ಷ and ಕೋಟಿ, so ₹12,500 is ಹನ್ನೆರಡು ಸಾವಿರದ ಐನೂರು ರೂಪಾಯಿ and 1.5 lakh is ಒಂದೂವರೆ ಲಕ್ಷ. Many Bengaluru callers say amounts and times in English, so choose a style and write numbers out as words in the agent's instructions.

Times use ಕಾಲು (quarter), ವರೆ (half) and ಮುಕ್ಕಾಲು (three quarters): ನಾಲ್ಕೂವರೆ is 4:30. Vehicle registrations such as KA 05 MN 1234, OTPs and phone numbers should be read letter by letter and digit by digit.

IRDAI pre-issuance verification calls

How it works

Three models handle every turn of the call.

The caller speaks, Valmiki STT writes it down, Vyas LLM decides the reply, and Pāṇini TTS says it.

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Valmiki STT listens
Valmiki STT transcribes Kannada and English in the same sentence and detects the language without being told.
02
Vyas LLM decides
Vyas LLM reads the transcript with your instructions and picks the next step: answer, ask one question, use one of your tools, or transfer the call.
03
Pāṇini TTS speaks
Pāṇini TTS answers in a Kannada voice, reading Kannada script and English words alike. Clone a native speaker from a 10-second sample for a local accent.
04
Your tools and your team
Agents support MCP and tool calling during a call. The agent can transfer the call live to a person on your team. Every call has a recording and a transcript.

Price

$0.055 per minute, the same in Kannada as in English.

$0.055 per minute is the published price for agent calls. Telephony you connect from your own provider carries no Sonex minute charge.

	Per minute	1,000 minutes	10,000 minutes
US dollars (published price)	$0.055	$55.00	$550.00
Indian rupees	₹5.23	₹5,227	₹52,272

Rupee figures use ₹95.04 per US dollar (open.er-api.com, 24 October 2026). They are for planning only. Full details on pricing; estimate a month of calls, with your telephony provider's rates, in the AI calling cost calculator. The AI calling agent price in India page answers the common questions in rupees.

Rules

What the calling rules ask of an AI agent.

An opening line that says so

ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ, ಇದು [ಕಂಪನಿ] ಕಡೆಯಿಂದ AI assistant call, ಈ call record ಆಗ್ತಿದೆ.

Hello, this is an AI assistant calling for [company], and this call is being recorded.

AI calling is legal in India, and the rules for business calls apply to an AI agent as they do to a person. TRAI now treats every call dialled by software, AI agents included, as an A2P call: from 27 November 2026 the business must declare these calls, and the numbers it calls from, to its telecom operator in advance. Promotional calls must come from 140 numbers, and service calls from banks, insurers and other regulated firms from the 1600 series. Read TRAI's rules on robocalls and commercial calls and TRAI's 140, 1600 and 1601 number series.

For overdue loans, the RBI's recovery directions apply from 1 January 2027: calls only between 08:00 and 19:00, every recovery call recorded and kept for six months, and the debt discussed only with the borrower or guarantor. They do not mention AI, so hold an AI agent to the same standard as a person. See RBI's recovery rules for calls. Most duties for call recordings under the DPDP Rules start on 13 May 2027 (DPDP and call recordings).

Telling the caller in the first line that the call is with an AI agent and is recorded is the simple, safe default everywhere. More openings are in the AI disclosure and recording-notice scripts, and country rules in AI calling rules by country. These are summaries, not legal advice.

FAQ

Kannada AI calling agents, answered.

Yes. The demo near the top of this page is a live agent, not a recording. Press start, allow the microphone and talk to it in Kannada. Demo calls end after 90 seconds, and no phone number or sign-up is needed.

Yes. Valmiki STT transcribes Kannada and English in the same sentence without being told which is coming, and the agent can reply in the same mix.

Whatever its instructions are written in. Use spoken forms such as ಮಾಡ್ಬೇಕು in the sample lines and the agent will speak that way.

Valmiki STT detects the language on each turn and transcribes all three. Say in the agent's instructions whether it should follow the caller or stay in Kannada.

Letter by letter and digit by digit, if its instructions say so. Give one example in the prompt and the agent follows it.

Only when it knows who is on the line. Otherwise use the customer's name with the respectful ನೀವು forms, which fit everyone.

$0.055 per minute is the published price, the same for every language: about ₹5.23 at the 24 October 2026 exchange rate. 1,000 minutes of calls cost $55.00, about ₹5,227. Telephony you connect from your own provider carries no Sonex minute charge.

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