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Malayalam AI calling agents for your business
A Malayalam AI calling agent calls your customers, or answers when they call, in the Malayalam people speak across Kerala, 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 Malayalam demo agent reminds a patient of a follow-up visit at a made-up Kochi eye clinic. Play the patient: confirm, change the day or ask what to bring. 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 Malayalam 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.
Payment collections
Order confirmation
Lead calls
Customer support
Start from a script
How Malayalam callers talk
Malayalam callers mix English into nearly every sentence.
Malayalam callers use English words in nearly every sentence: “appointment confirm ചെയ്യട്ടെ?”, “payment ആയോ?”. Valmiki STT writes that mix down as it is said, without being told the language first, and Pāṇini TTS reads Malayalam script and English words in one voice.
Malayalam joins words together, so one spoken word can carry a whole phrase, and spoken forms are shorter than written ones. Speech differs between Thiruvananthapuram in the south, Thrissur in the middle and Kozhikode and Kannur in the north; write the agent's sample lines with the words your customers use.
Many Malayali customers live in the Gulf. A Malayalam agent works the same on those calls, but the calling rules of the country being called apply, not India's.
Lines an agent might say
നിങ്ങളുടെ appointment നാളെ രാവിലെ പത്തരയ്ക്കാണ്.
Your appointment is tomorrow at 10:30 in the morning.
നാലരയ്ക്ക് വരാമോ?
Can you come at 4:30?
പന്ത്രണ്ടായിരത്തി അഞ്ഞൂറ് രൂപ
₹12,500
ഒന്നര ലക്ഷം
1.5 lakh
Numbers, dates and times
Times and amounts in Malayalam.
Malayalam builds times from അര (half), കാൽ (quarter) and മുക്കാൽ (three quarters): നാലര is 4:30, നാലേകാൽ is 4:15 and നാലേമുക്കാൽ is 4:45. Amounts use ആയിരം, ലക്ഷം and കോടി, so ₹12,500 is പന്ത്രണ്ടായിരത്തി അഞ്ഞൂറ് രൂപ. Write numbers out as words in the agent's instructions.
Business calls use Gregorian dates; the Malayalam calendar (കൊല്ലവർഷം) comes up around Onam and Vishu. OTPs, phone numbers and booking IDs should be read one digit at a time.
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.
- 01
Valmiki STT listens
Valmiki STT transcribes Malayalam 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 Malayalam voice, reading Malayalam 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 Malayalam 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
നമസ്കാരം, ഇത് [കമ്പനി]-യുടെ AI assistant കോൾ ആണ്, ഈ കോൾ റെക്കോർഡ് ചെയ്യുന്നുണ്ട്.
Hello, this is an AI assistant call from [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
Malayalam 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 Malayalam. Demo calls end after 90 seconds, and no phone number or sign-up is needed.
Yes. Valmiki STT transcribes Malayalam and English in the same sentence without being told which is coming, and the agent can answer in the same mix.
As നാലര, if its instructions use that form. Malayalam builds times from അര, കാൽ and മുക്കാൽ; give the agent an example and it follows it.
Yes, through a telephony provider that can reach Gulf numbers. The calling rules of the country being called apply, such as the UAE's rules for marketing calls.
Valmiki STT transcribes them as Malayalam. Accuracy on each regional accent has not been measured separately, so test with callers from your area.
Yes, through your tools. Agents support MCP and tool calling during a call, so the agent can check free slots in your system and book a new one.
$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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