Sarvam AI has released Kivi, a voice-powered productivity app for Mac that supports dictation, drafting, and editing across email, messaging, and documents in over 22 Indian languages.

Kivi emphasizes seamless switching between English and Indian languages in conversations and uses code-mixed output to reflect natural multilingual communication.

Billed as a cross-application voice-based productivity tool, Kivi relies on Saaras V4 to reduce keyboard use on Mac.

Users can create custom writing rules with natural-language instructions and set shortcuts to insert longer content via phrases.

Kivi’s memory feature learns from user corrections and maintains a custom dictionary for names and frequently used terms.

Output options include transcription, translation, verbatim transcription, transliteration, and code-mixed output.

The technology enables converting speech to text, translating to other languages, and writing in different scripts for emails, documents, and notes.

Kivi reflects a broader India-focused AI trend prioritizing local-language applications over English-first interfaces.

Kivi automatically identifies the spoken language and is designed to handle code-mixed speech, dialects, and noisy environments.

Kivi supports English and 22 constitutionally recognized Indian languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, and Punjabi.

Saaras V4, the underlying speech model, combines an audio encoder with a 3‑billion-parameter hybrid state-space language model for strong performance across supported languages.

Sarvam aims to make voice a practical interface for computing in an Indian linguistic context, not just a voice-typing tool.