# ElevenLabs — Voice AI for Karnataka

- Company: ElevenLabs (elevenlabs.io)
- Announced: 2026-10-28T11:30:00+00:00
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/voice-ai-for-karnataka
- Record: https://forck.live/items/28776-voice-ai-for-karnataka
- Subject: Voice AI

ElevenLabs signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Karnataka to bring voice AI into public services across the state, at the company's first India Summit in Bengaluru. The agreement was signed by Karnataka's Minister for IT and Home Affairs, Shri Priyank Kharge, and ElevenLabs co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski. ElevenLabs will work with the state's IT department on voice AI pilots for grievance redressals, public helplines and entitlement schemes, with the aim of serving citizens in Kannada and the other 13 official Indian languages live on the platform. The company will also deploy its safety framework with the state, covering deepfake detection, watermarking, consent, limits on voice cloning and fraud prevention, and will brief local officials who deploy and oversee these systems. Through its One Million Voices program, ElevenLabs will give eligible Karnataka residents who have lost the ability to speak, because of oral or throat cancer, ALS or other neurological conditions, free lifetime licences to speak using an AI recreation of their own voice, including in Kannada. The agreement extends ElevenLabs' work with governments, including the UK AI Security Institute and the governments of Greece and Brazil.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://elevenlabs.io/blog/voice-ai-for-karnataka:

> The first-ever ElevenLabs Summit India took place earlier this month in Bengaluru. At the event, ElevenLabs signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Karnataka to bring voice AI into public services across the state.
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> Karnataka, home to Bengaluru, has been a leader in using technology to deliver public services. Under Karnataka’s Minister for IT and Home Affairs, Shri Priyank Kharge, the state has prioritized responsible AI adoption and is piloting voice AI in citizen services. For ElevenLabs, the agreement extends a growing body of work with governments around the world, from our collaboration with the UK AI Security Institute (AISI), announced in February 2026, to ongoing partnerships with the governments of Greece and Brazil, among others.
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> Minister Kharge, and ElevenLabs co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski signed the agreement during ElevenLabs’ inaugural India Summit. The MoU with Karnataka covers exploring voice AI for citizen services, alongside voice AI safety and voice restoration, with the goal of advancing government adoption of voice AI for citizen services.
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> Voice AI for citizen services

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