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Live Kannada speech translation API

Translate Kannada speech to and from 60+ languages in real time. Low-latency streaming, 3,600 language pairs, and accurate translation for voice agents, live captioning, and multilingual apps.

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Production-ready Kannada speech translation API

Real conversations in Kannada include accents, regional dialects, code switching, and domain-specific vocabulary. Soniox is built to handle that variation in a single model, so live translation stays usable across regions and registers.

Soniox preserves formatting in the translated transcript, including names, numbers, addresses, IDs, and domain-specific terms.

Kannada belongs to the Dravidian > South Dravidian family. Soniox translates between Kannada and related languages, as well as any of 60+ supported targets and 3,600 language pairs in total.

A breakthrough in real-time Kannada translation

Translate Kannada before the sentence ends

Meaning lands as it's spoken, not after the caption catches up.

Kannada paired with 60+ languages

Both source and target. 3,600 pairs total, not English-centric.

High quality Kannada output

Same model across every language, including historically underserved ones.

Native-speaker Kannada STT accuracy

Accurate translation starts with accurate recognition across accents, multilingual speech, and language switching.

Kannada names, numbers, and domain terms

Preserved in both transcript and translation, including phone numbers, emails, and IDs.

config.json
{
  "model": "stt-rt-v4",
  "translation": {
    "type": "one_way",
    "target_language": "kn"
  }
}

Transcription + translation through a single stream

Kannada translation is built on top of Soniox Speech-to-Text API. Every spoken word is transcribed, and translation streams mid-sentence and both arrive together in a single labeled token stream.

Turn it on by adding a translation block to your request. Translation runs on the same WebSocket and the same model. Translated tokens come back interleaved with transcripts, with no extra round trip.

Live Kannada translation: written and spoken

Kannada speech-to-text translation

Live Kannada speechTranscript + translation

Translate live Kannada into written text with the Soniox STT API. Enable real-time translation with a config change. Soniox streams the Kannada transcript and translated text as speech happens.

Use it for Kannada captions, subtitles, meeting translation, agent assist, accessibility tools, and multilingual transcription.

Kannada speech-to-speech translation

Live Kannada speechTranslated speech

Build full spoken Kannada translation by combining Soniox STT and Soniox TTS. Soniox recognizes Kannada, translates it in real time, and speaks the output in the target language with low latency.

Use it for live Kannada interpreters, bilingual voice agents, travel assistants, customer support, and real-time multilingual communication.

Live Kannada translation for captions, conversations and more

Stream live Kannada translation in two modes: one-way translates all speech into a single target language, two-way keeps a bilingual conversation flowing between Kannada and another language.

Kannada speaker says: “Returnಗೆ ಡೀಟೇಲ್ಸ್ ಅನ್ನು WhatsApp group‌ನಲ್ಲಿ update ಮಾಡ್ತೀನಿ.”
Speech is translated into English (or any of 60+ target languages) in real time.

One-way translation

Translate live speech to or from Kannada into a single target language. Everyone in the conversation sees the same translated stream.

Ideal for live captions, multilingual meetings, broadcasts, lectures, customer calls, and products where many speakers need to be understood in one language.

Kannada speaker talks in Kannada.
English speaker hears English.
English speaker replies in English.
Kannada speaker hears Kannada.

Two-way translation

Translate between Kannada and another language for live bilingual conversation. Each side speaks naturally and hears the other in their own language.

Soniox supports real-time two-way translation between any two of 60+ supported languages.

Simple, usage-based pricing

Start translating live Kannada audio streams from ~$0.18/hour.

Translation is already built into Soniox Speech-to-Text API. When turned on, it adds about ~$0.06/hour in output token costs.

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Built on the Soniox speech AI platform

Kannada translation is powered by the same infrastructure behind Soniox STT and TTS.

Speech-to-Text

Native-speaker accuracy across 60+ languages, with support for multilingual speech, alphanumerics, speaker diarization, context.

Translation

Real-time streaming translation across 3,600 language pairs, built for high quality and low delay across all supported languages.

Text-to-speech

High-fidelity speech generation in 60+ languages, built for names, alphanumerics, language switching, and ultra-low-latency streaming.

Together, they create a complete real-time low-latency speech AI platform.

About Kannada

Kannada has roughly 44,000,000 speakers across India.

Kannada has a literary tradition spanning over 1,500 years, with the earliest known inscription dating to 450 CE.

Kannada is a Dravidian language, unrelated to the Indo-European Hindi and Bengali.

Translate Kannada to a specific language

Pick a target language for a Kannada translation API guide with config, latency, and language pair details.

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Frequently asked questions

Does Soniox translate Kannada in real time?
Yes. Soniox streams Kannada translation while speech is still happening, so users see or hear meaning immediately instead of waiting for the sentence to end.
What language pairs are supported for Kannada?
Soniox supports translation between Kannada and any of 60+ supported languages — 3,600 language pairs in total. Both Kannada as the source and Kannada as the target are supported.
How does two-way Kannada translation work?
Two-way translation lets both sides of a conversation speak in their own language and hear the other side in theirs. A Kannada speaker can talk in Kannada while the other party hears their own language in real time, and vice versa.
Does Soniox handle dialects and accents in Kannada?
Yes. Soniox handles Kannada dialects like Coastal Kannada, Mysore Kannada, and Dharwad Kannada in a single model, along with accents and language switching, so live translation stays accurate across regions and registers.
Can Soniox translate names, numbers, and domain terms in Kannada?
Yes. Soniox preserves the details that matter — names, phone numbers, emails, IDs, addresses, verification codes, and domain-specific terminology — in both the Kannada transcript and the translated output.
Which other providers support live Kannada translation?
Based on their public docs, Azure list Kannada as a supported source language for real-time translation. Soniox is the only one of them that also supports two-way live translation across 60+ languages.
How fast is Kannada translation?
Soniox streams translated text as Kannada is being spoken, with ultra-low latency. Translation arrives before the sentence ends, rather than after long caption delays.
What can I build with Kannada translation?
Common use cases include multilingual voice agents, live interpreters, multilingual meetings, customer support and contact centers, real-time translated captions and subtitles, and accessibility and communication tools — all with Kannada as a source or target.

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