India: Flipkart acquires speech recognition startup Liv.ai to take on Amazon's Alexa

India: Flipkart acquires speech recognition startup Liv.ai to take on Amazon's Alexa

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India’s largest online marketplace Flipkart on Tuesday said it has bought Liv.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI) start-up which has built a platform that converts speech to text in 10 Indian languages. The company did not disclose the size of the deal.

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