Real-time and async Bengali speech-to-text API that keeps up with how people actually talk. Handles regional accents, fast speech, and code-switching mid-sentence. Live in production in under a day.
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Bengali is the national language of Bangladesh and an official language in the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura. It is one of the most spoken languages in the world, and Bangladesh's growing economy makes it a voice market that's hard to ignore.
Supporting Bengali lets you serve customers across Bangladesh and eastern India, and reach large diaspora communities in the UK, the Gulf, and North America from a single product.
People rarely stick to one language. Gladia follows Bengali speakers when they switch mid-sentence, so your transcripts stay clean.
Code-switchingUse cases
Whatever you're building, Bengali shouldn't be the thing that slows it down.
Office meetings in Dhaka and Kolkata often slide between Bengali and English, so notes need to keep both languages in one transcript.
Meeting assistants →Mobile money services like bKash and telecoms like Grameenphone field Bengali support calls at a scale QA teams can't review manually.
CCaaS →Bengali sounds different in Dhaka and Kolkata, from vocabulary to pronunciation, so voice agents have to understand callers from both sides of the border.
Voice agents →Kolkata's film industry and Bangladeshi TV dramas draw diaspora audiences from London's East End to the Gulf, all looking for subtitles.
Media →Supported languages
Being multilingual has been our priority since day one. Gladia supports 100 languages, with code-switching and automatic language detection integrated into all models by default.
Ship Bengali voice features with an API built for messy, real-world conversations.
