“Everything you say about India is true and also the opposite is true,” said Sreermaan Thiagarajan, CEO of aawaz.com, a podcast distribution company. “So there is an audience for everything and this applies to podcasts.” “We control the distribution of Podcasts and guarantee they are ‘Mom safe,’” he said. Thiagarajan has developed a framework that has been informed by the Indian audience data.

Sreeraman Thiagarajan, co-founder, Agrahyah Technologies, which runs Aawaz.com, says the platform now hosts content in Marathi and Urdu, in addition to Hindi. He says listeners of podcasts in English prefer to use the medium to learn new things and upskill; listeners of content in regional languages, however, seek out fictional content that is entertaining in nature.

With the proliferation of podcasts in various Indian languages, the perception that the audio medium caters only to the English-knowing and -speaking metro audiences is fast changing. Increasingly, people in tier 2 and tier 3 regions are tuning into podcast platforms to listen to content in their preferred languages. This has provided a huge opportunity to brands as it helps them reach out to a niche podcast-listening audience.

aawaz.com and HT Media Ltd’s Fever FM are coming together to create a series of live, interactive audio experiences on #aawazLive, a feature inside aawaz for real-time interactions. Starting May 22nd, listeners can interact live with popular Fever FM RJs including Vaibhav and Raghu Raftaar, among others. Listeners can also ask questions, share comments, express with emojis during the live audio show conducted in Hindi. Visit bit.ly/fevergameshow in your mobile browser to begin.

India’s largest spoken-word audio and podcast network aawaz.com has entered in the live audio space with the launch of #aawazLive. The real-time, live audio chat feature will be available on the aawaz.com platform, offering professionally generated content. The company has partnered with FM stations, publishers, news & media companies to bring high quality, live and interactive audio experience to its growing listener base.

Confined to home, and tired of watching reruns on video-streaming platforms and Zoom meetings? Plug in the headphones, scroll down the podcast lists on the likes of Spotify, Audible, Gaana or select one from your telecom network's app. Choose 'Horror Stories' and a man's calm voice talks just to you on what he experienced while driving down a desolate road... Over the last year or so, the pandemic has got India hooked onto the audio medium

Spare a minute as you sip some coffee and think about it. A notification message on your phone catches your attention among the lockdown-related news and you reach out for your phone. What pops up on the screen? It’s an invite. Invite to join the audio streaming app - Clubhouse.

India’s leading business daily The Economic Times is delighted to announce its business news podcast, The Morning Brief, createdinpartnership with aawaz.com. The Economic Times, India’s largest brand of business news and information, has forayed into podcasts with the launch of ‘The Morning Brief’.

India’s leading business daily The Economic Times is delighted to announce its business news podcast, The Morning Brief, createdinpartnership with aawaz.com. The Economic Times, India’s largest brand of business news and information, has forayed into podcasts with the launch of ‘The Morning Brief’.

If you think you know nothing about the world of podcasts, you may stand corrected. You may have heard many unwittingly and, in fact, Mann Ki Baat is the most popular in India, the world’s third-largest podcast-listening market, after China and the US. Podcast listening is growing in the country, and whether you're driving, cooking, exercising, or doing household chores, with podcasts there’s an opportunity to use that time to listen to a riveting story, catch up on the news, get in a laugh, or learn something new. The year 2020 has been remarkable for podcasts. ...

In January and February, the monthly listens were recorded at 3.5 million and 3.7 million respectively and this went up to 6.9 million by March 31, Umesh Barve, Head of India Partnerships (Content and Distribution) at Audioboom, told Moneycontrol. Sreeraman Thiagarajan, co-founder, aawaz.com, also said that there has been increase in consumption on his platform.

Indians, stuck at home due to the lockdown induced by the Covid-19 pandemic, are turning to podcasts to keep themselves entertained as they go about their daily chores, giving a boost to the fledgling industry. Downloads on podcast platforms including Aawaaz.com, IVM, Audioboom, Hubhopper, and Ep.Log have jumped 8-30% over the last two weeks.

Aawaz.com, said to be India's largest podcast and spoken-word audio, on-demand service with 100% original content, has recently launched its English edition. Live since January 2019 with over 500 hours of Hindi audio programming, the audio network has now expanded to Original Audio in English. Existing users of the Aawaz app can now listen to both English and Hindi music by simply choosing their preference within the app or on the website.

According to the company, Agrahyah Technologies, India''s voice agency based in Mumbai started in 2017, the same year as Alexa''s India launch. With many successful skills launches, including Red Chillies Entertainment for the movie ''Zero'', Agrahyah''s skills today are among the top rated skills on Amazon Alexa Skills store in India, the company said.

Agrahyah Technologies, India’s first voice agency based in Mumbai started in 2017, the same year as Alexa’s India launch. With many successful skills launches including Red Chillies Entertainment for the movie Zero, Agrahyah’s Skills today are among the top rated Skills on Amazon Alexa Skills store in India.

Agrahyah Technologies, India’s first voice agency based in Mumbai started in 2017, the same year as Alexa’s India launch. With many successful skills launches including Red Chillies Entertainment for the movie Zero, Agrahyah’s Skills today are among the top rated Skills on Amazon Alexa Skills store in India.

India’s podcast market is getting increasingly competitive with entry of new players as well as expansion plans of the existing ones. one of the largest podcasting players in the Hindi space, aawaz.com, has now announced the launch of its English edition.

"Our vision of creating products ground up to be relevant to Indian audience doesn't stop at regional languages. We see Indian English as a unique language and launching the aawaz english edition is to offer a differentiated experience to our listeners who currently have limited source of audio content created originally for Indian ethos and values,” said Sreeraman Thiagarajan, co-founder, Aawaz.com.

one of the largest podcasting players in the Hindi space, aawaz.com, has now announced the launch of its English edition. aawaz is India's largest podcast and spoken-word audio on-demand.

Sreeraman Thiagarajan, co-founder, Agrahyah Technologies is of the opinion that Voice can only enhance the already established communication system between brands and consumers. "Ten years ago, brands were building applications for mobiles.

Ishq Bhi, Risk Bhi, the light-hearted drama has been made keeping in mind users who come from non-metro cities who often are not the target of investor education programs but who today constitute a significant chunk of participants in the equity markets.

The brainchild of Mumbai-based startup Agrahyah Technologies, Aawaz.com is one of India’s first audio-on-demand platforms. It houses more than 300 hours of original audio programming in Hindi, including devotional chants and bhajans, celebrity interviews, stand-up comedy, health and wellness shows, historical and mythological stories, and more.

On the software side of things, there are companies like Agrahyah Technologies that voice-enables companies that already have non-voice websites or apps. From car comparisons to mutual fund plans, this Indian company has voice-enabled over 100 brands and hopes to grow massively in the coming months.

While the podcast audience is primarily young people living in metros, it has also begun moving beyond them. Hindi podcast platform aawaz.com found that while the bulk of its listeners (52 per cent) were in the 25-34 years age group, 26 per cent were above the age of 34. (The remaining were in the 18-24 age group.)

Agrahyah Technologies: Mumbai based software company Agrahyah Technologies closed a pre-series A round of $1 Mn in funding from undisclosed investors. The funds will be used to fuel growth and expansion of its products aawaz.com.

Agrahyah Technologies which operates Aawaz.com, which claims to be India’s first and largest audio-on-demand service in Hindi has raised $1 Million in a pre-series A round from undisclosed High-net-worth individuals (HNIs).

If one were to delve deeper into the reasons for this sudden increase in enthusiasm around podcasts, Sreeraman Thiagarajan, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Agrahyah Technologies that owns and operates Hindi podcast platform, aawaz.com says that there are several.

Mumbai-based technology startup Agrahyah Technologies has raised $1 million (about Rs 6.8 crore) in a pre-series A round of funding from undisclosed high-net-worth individual (HNI) investors to fuel its expansion plans.

Agrahyah Technologies, a Mumbai-based software firm, has raised $1 million in a pre-Series A round from undisclosed investors to fuel its growth and expansion plans.

Mumbai-based software company Agrahyah Technologies, which has in-house audio and text content creation capabilities, on Wednesday announced it has closed its pre-series A round of $1 million during the first quarter of 2019.

Mumbai-based software company Agrahyah Technologies, which has in-house audio and text content creation capabilities, on Wednesday announced it has closed its pre-series A round of $1 million during the first quarter of 2019.

Sreeraman Thiagarajan, Co-Founder, Agrahyah Technologies, an agency dedicated to Voice marketing, explains, “Currently, there are two ways of integrating Voice into your strategy. One is by integrating with the Voice assistants to make ordering simpler for consumers.

हिन्दी के उपभोगकर्ताओं के लिए एक बेहद उपयोगी एप लॉन्च हुआ है, जिसका नाम है आवाज.कॉम (aawaz .com )। एप निर्माता कंपनी दावा है कि इस प्लेटफॉर्म पर हिन्दी व अन्य भारतीय भाषाओं में उपभोगकर्ताओं को गुणवत्तापूर्ण कन्टेंट पढ़ने और सुनने को मिलेगा, जिसमें करियर, खेल, मनोरंजन जैसे क्षेत्र की जानकारियों से उपयोगकर्ता लगातार अपडेट होते रहेंगे।

डिजीटल इंडिया में बढ़ते भारत और भारतीय भाषाओं के प्रभाव के लिए गुरुवार को आवाज डॉट कॉम की लांचिंग हुई। यह वेब और एंड्राएड एप्लिकेशन के रूप में उपलब्ध होगा। यहां शिक्षा, ज्ञान और मनोरंजन समग्र रूप में मौजूद होगा। यहां सुनने के साथ पढ़ने की भी सुविधा होगी।

MUMBAI: Agrahyah Technologies has launched aawaz.com, an audio on demand platform with professionally generated content in vernacular languages. With this, people can listen to podcasts, chat shows, interviews and also read articles and features. Aawaz.com is currently available in Hindi, and as both website and Android app.

“Amazon doesn’t wait until the last minute to introduce developers to companies. Amazon is so sales driven. They are evangelising what to build, how to build, why to build. In Amazon, the solutions architect and the sales team are like a couple,” said Sreeraman Thiagarajan, cofounder at Agrahyah Technologies.

Agrahyah Technologies, the Mumbai based software technology and content solution provider for the emerging voice platforms like Amazon Alexa, has been awarded as‘Alexa Agency of the Year’ at the Amazon AI conclave held on 13th December 2018 at Bengaluru, India.

Some banks in India are already building voice-led chatbots that can help users transfer funds, check balance, and more. Agrahyah Technologies, a voice agency that was launched in 2018, is working on such solutions for its clients in the financial sector. Sreeraman Thiagarajan, Co-founder of Agrahyah Technologies, believes that unlike fads like AR and VR, voice is a “need to have” capability.

Voice pioneer Sreeraman Thiagarajan the CEO of Agrahyah Technologies, uses India as an example of why voice is taking off. He says that as Indians, we hate to type, but love to talk. He considers this one of the core reasons that chatbots didn’t take off in India, while voice has.

Agrahyah Technologies, a solution provider for voice-first platforms such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, has launched India’s first ‘voice agency’ to assist brands in customer engagement.

Agrahyah Technologies, a Mumbai based software and content company, announced ‘Voice agency’, with a vision to provide brands an innovative and inclusive strategy to leverage the power of voice assistants to engage their customers.

Agrahyah Technologies, a Mumbai based software and content company, announced India’s first ‘Voice agency’, with a vision to provide brands an innovative and inclusive strategy to leverage the power of voice assistants to engage their customers.

Developers are creating voice skills across use cases for Alexa. But the Amazon voice assistant’s success is tethered to the skills it has, and right now, these are inconsistent.

The company’s game plan is to be a first-mover in the voice space helping brands become first-movers to gain competitive advantage. Sreeraman Thiagarajan, Co-founder of Agrahyah Technologies, says it is time that “brands should be chalking out a clear voice strategy.”

Agrahyah Technologies, a tech and content startup working closely with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, has launched India’s first-ever voice agency that will drive ‘voice’ as the next medium for brands to engage with their consumers.

At Amazon’s Alexa research unit in Bengaluru, a small team of speech recognition scientists are working on solving the local language problem. Substantial progress has been made, and the voice assistant can now understand Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Punjabi phrases.

Voice adoption has been unlike any other digital technology we have seen in the past decade. A combination but concentrated efforts are at play. Google Assistant is practically in every Android phone including the 500 rupees feature phone from the house of Jio.

Agrahyah is a software firm and a content producer rolled into one. It is building a suite of apps, websites, content platforms, and voice-based products for India’s surging vernacular population. They too want a share of the lucrative ‘500-million-users-by-2020’ pie and make the internet more accessible to the average Indian. Mumbai-based Agrahyah Technologies is one such company.

Amazon’s Echo range of devices are all the rage, from giving you cricket score to weather updates to streaming music on demand, it can do it all. But, did you know you can convert your home into a smart home with the Echo devices and then summon Alexa to help you get things done in the physical world?

For any Internet company to make any meaningful impact in voice in India, they have no choice but to be available in Indian languages,” said Sreeraman Thiagarajan, co-founder of Mumbai-based Agrahyah Technologies that is building a voice-based content platform for Indian language content.

Sreeraman Thiagrajan is the co-founder of Agrahyah Technologies, a bootstrapped startup from Mumbai that builds apps, products, and content for non-English speaking Internet users in India.

Voice assistants like Alexa, Google Assistant or Siri are being incorporated into a host of services in retail stores, e-commer-ce sites, car showrooms, banking and insurance as well as products like consumer durables th-at work on some instructions,” said Sreeraman Thi-agarajan, co-founder of Agrahyah Technologies, a startup th-at builds and deloys Amazon’s Alexa Skills.

Mumbai based software company Agrahyah Technologies is driving digital inclusion by introducing Indian Language content across Mobile, Web and Voice platforms. It recently unveiled its digital almanac (panchang) in the Hindi language named ‘India Panchang’

Aawaz.com, which is scheduled to be launched in a few weeks, will be a web and app-based platform which will have Hindi content to start with

While Alexa’s brains plus Amazon’s retail muscle is a lethal combo for getting high on shopping, the impact voice assistants have are game-changing in the retail sector at large, here are top four by Sreeraman Thiagarajan, co-founder of Agrahyah Technologies.

At Agrahyah Technologies, we have organically grown from three to 32 members in our team in a year’s time, and there’s more coming! These are some of the principles we follow and have a conversation about with potential employees

Our host Sreeraman Thiagarajan, the Co-founder at Agrahyah Technologies, a startup bullish on Voice based technologies, helps us decode Voice based technologies. The company's co-founder Rushabh Vasa adds to this conversation with interesting tidbits on security and how Voice as an assistance took over.

If you have an Amazon Echo device and are using it only to listen to songs or cricket scores, you are grossly underutilising its potential. It has much more power to make your life better, faster and smarter.

Voice has been the most natural form of human interaction, historically we have domesticated wild animal to understand our voices. And in this decade, we can summon computers and devices to listen and respond to us with just voice.

While Alexa’s brains plus Amazon’s retail muscle is a lethal combo for getting high on shopping, the impact voice assistants have are game-changing in the retail sector at large, here are top four by Sreeraman Thiagarajan, co-founder of Agrahyah Technologies.

What gives? Rushabh Vasa, cofounder of Agrahyah Technologies, a Mumbai-based startup that creates apps and local-language content for cheap devices, said, “Companies aren't incentivized to care very much about giving users with budget phones a good experience.

Sreeraman Thiagarajan, co-founder of Agrahyah Technologies, says: “Every new technology takes a significantly lower amount of time than its predecessor to garner a critical mass of users, and the adoption of voice by people has been the fastest so far. Brace yourselves, as we enter a voice first world.”

Sreeraman Thiagarajan, co-founder of Agrahyah Technologies, says: “Every new technology takes a significantly lower amount of time than its predecessor to garner a critical mass of users, and the adoption of voice by people has been the fastest so far. Brace yourselves, as we enter a voice first world.”

If you have lived through the dot-com bubble burst in early 2000, then you need no introduction to how the web pulled the carpet under many business empires that were built on brick and mortar.

Voice assistants are all the rage, the comparison between Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa won’t end until cows come home. The real issue is how ready are people to adopt Voice, a whole new way of how we interact with machines.

“Aawaz.com is aimed to cement the gap, with high quality and genuine Hindi audio content that is created, ground up, by professionals and the availability on Indus App Bazaar will further enhance its visibility and acceptance,” Sreeraman Thiagarajan, co-founder of Agrahyah Technologies said.

The voice era is here and the world’s biggest modern day brands including Uber, Dominos, Whirlpool, Johnnie Walker, PayPal, etc, have all leveraged the artificial intelligence (AI) powered voice for enhancing interactivity with consumers.

Keeping with the category, Tata Mutual Fund has launched a fictional audio series on Awaaz.com. I listened to just one of the stories. ‘Dilwali ya Officewali’ offered an interesting lead-in to the brand pitch. And the audio series attempt seems to be a first for the category.