Sarvam AI Releases Saaras V4: A Speech-to-Text Model for All 22 Indian Languages and Global English
Sarvam AI released Saaras V4, a speech-to-text model for all 22 Indian languages and global English.
Sarvam AI released Saaras V4, an encoder-decoder speech recognition model available via its API as model "saaras:v4". The decoder is Sarvam-3B, a 3-billion-parameter hybrid state-space language model trained from scratch. Sarvam reports the lowest average word error rate on seven English sets and says Kathbath noisy LLM-WER is under half that of Deepgram Nova-3 and GPT-4o Transcribe; results are vendor-reported and not independently reproduced. Weights are not public. Pricing is ₹30 per hour, or ₹45 with diarization, with streaming time-to-first-token claimed under 150 ms.
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