For Indian-language newsrooms

AI for Indian newsrooms,
in your voice

We learn how your masthead writes, then generate articles, recaps, and audio in your tone, your idiom, your region. Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, and five more.

See how it works
9
Indian languages, native
200
articles to a Voice Card
60min
to first voice-faithful draft

The problem

Editors reject AI on the first paragraph. Three reasons, every time.

01
Voice

It doesn't sound like the masthead.

Every newsroom has a voice readers recognize. AI flattens it into a generic register that anyone can spot as computer-written inside ten seconds.

"This reads like it was written by someone who has never held a copy of our paper."

02
Culture

It's culturally tone-deaf.

Wrong festival reference, wrong regional idiom, taboo violations the model doesn't know are taboos. Technically grammatical, substantively wrong.

"The model wished readers a happy Diwali on Bhau Beej. Different days, different things."

03
Vernacular

Vernacular is an afterthought.

Most AI tools are English-first products with a translation layer bolted on. The result reads like English wearing a Devanagari costume.

"It's not Marathi. It's English transliterated. Our readers know the difference in one sentence."

Two things, working together.

Without either one, you get generic AI. With both, you get yourself, multiplied.

Moat one

Voice Capture

Upload 200 to 2,000 of your existing articles. Within an hour, your Voice Card maps your sentence rhythm, your top 30 signature phrases, your headline patterns, and the structural shapes of your most-used story types.

Phrases
Top 30 signature phrases, ranked by frequency.
Patterns
Headline shapes: question, number, scene, direct claim.
Shapes
Match recap, obituary, festival feature, crime brief.
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Moat two

Cultural Knowledge Graph

Per language and per region. Festivals, idioms, regional pop culture, taboo-aware. Every Indian language is at least four languages.

Marathi
Pune≠Vidarbha
Hindi
Delhi≠Bhojpuri belt
Tamil
Coimbatore≠Chennai

Voice Card

This is your masthead, mapped.

Voice Card is the fingerprint of how your newsroom writes. Sentence-length distribution. The 30 phrases you use that no other publication does. The shapes your obituaries take versus your match recaps.

Editors review every signature phrase before it goes live. Add manual notes the automated extraction missed. Re-train when you publish a new wave of articles.

Your voice is your moat.
We make it visible.

Generation surfaces

Generate from any of five inputs.
All of them in your voice.

Type a topic. Get a Voice Card-faithful draft in 30 seconds.

For when the editor knows the story before the wire arrives. The Voice Card decides the lede, the cadence, the signature phrases. The editor decides the rest.

Editor input
Topic: Pune municipal corruption probe Length: 600 words · Marathi · Pune voice
GenerateVoice Card · v3.2
Voice-faithful draft
पुणे महापालिकेच्या निविदा प्रकरणी फेरतपासणी; आयुक्तांची मंजुरी
मंडळी, ही गोष्ट केवळ कागदपत्रांची नाही. शहराच्या पाण्याशी, रस्त्यांशी जोडलेली आहे. महापालिकेच्या तीन वर्षांच्या निविदांमध्ये…
612 words27 signature phrases matched94% fidelity

Daily-aggregated trending topics, by language and region.

Pick what's actually moving in Vidarbha, in the Bhojpuri belt, in Kongu Nadu. Each topic is sourced and rankable. None of it is national-mainstream noise.

Today's trends · Marathi · Vidarbha
▲ Cotton MSP delay · 4,200 mentions ▲ Nagpur winter session · 2,800 ▲ Sant Tukdoji jayanti · 1,900 ▲ Buldhana water dispute · 1,400
Pick · GenerateVidarbha voice
Regional explainer
कापूस हमीभावाचा प्रश्न: विदर्भातील शेतकऱ्याचा संयम संपत आला
यवतमाळ आणि वर्धा जिल्ह्यांतील कापूस उत्पादक शेतकऱ्यांच्या हाती अद्याप MSP पोहोचलेले नाही…
Vidarbha MarathiSourced: 3 wires, 2 govt releases

PTI, ANI, or your own RSS. Wire item in, voice-faithful article out.

Every claim tagged with provenance. Every voice-phrase highlighted before approval. The editor sees the wire and the draft side by side; nothing gets through that the desk hasn't read.

PTI wire · English · 14:22 IST
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Wednesday ruled that the model code of conduct will come into effect from October 15, applying to all five poll-bound states…
Translate · AdaptHindi · Delhi voice
Hindi article in your voice
आचार संहिता 15 अक्टूबर से, पाँच राज्यों पर लागू
नई दिल्ली। चुनाव आयोग ने बुधवार को घोषणा की कि आदर्श आचार संहिता 15 अक्टूबर से प्रभावी होगी और पाँच चुनावी राज्यों पर लागू होगी…
412 words3 claims, 3 sourced0 unverified

Live ISL, IPL, or district-league feed. Recap before the next bulletin.

Match goes to full-time. Ninety seconds later, you have a recap in your masthead's voice, with the result, the turning point, the key player, and the next fixture.

Live feed · ISL · 21:48 full-time
Mumbai City FC 2 - 1 Bengaluru FC Goals: Bipin Singh 14', Lallianzuala Chhangte 67' (MCFC), Sunil Chhetri 81' (BFC) Possession 58–42 · Shots 14–9
RecapMarathi · 90 seconds
Recap, ready to ship
मुंबई सिटीचा सलग सातवा अपराजित डाव; बेंगळुरूवर 2-1 ने मात
मुंबईच्या मैदानावर बुधवारी रात्री बिपिन सिंगच्या सुरुवातीच्या आणि लाललियानझुआला छंगतेच्या उत्तरार्धातील गोलने…
284 wordsApproved in 22s

Any approved draft into a TTS-ready script, paced for a 3 to 5 minute listen.

Punctuation paced for the breath. Numbers spelled where a reader would say them. SSML where you need it. Output is an MP3 in a voice you've cleared.

Approved Hindi article · 412 words
आचार संहिता 15 अक्टूबर से, पाँच राज्यों पर लागू…
Pace · RenderBulletin tone
Audio script · 3:42 runtime
[ pause 0.4s ] नमस्कार। आज की प्रमुख खबर।
चुनाव आयोग ने बुधवार को… [ pause 0.2s ] आदर्श आचार संहिता पंद्रह अक्टूबर से प्रभावी होगी…
3:42 runtimeVoice: clearedSSML applied

Nine Indian languages.
Forty-plus regional registers.

Each is at the optical size its script demands. Each is a first language inside the system, not a translation target.

हिन्दी
Hindi
6 regions
मराठी
Marathi
4 regions
தமிழ்
Tamil
5 regions
తెలుగు
Telugu
4 regions
বাংলা
Bengali
3 regions
ગુજરાતી
Gujarati
4 regions
ಕನ್ನಡ
Kannada
4 regions
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
Punjabi
3 regions
ଓଡ଼ିଆ
Odia
3 regions

Plus per-region cultural fluency. Pune Marathi is not Vidarbha Marathi. Delhi Hindi is not Bhojpuri-belt Hindi. Kongu Tamil is not Chennai Tamil. We treat each as the distinct language it actually is.

Proof

Where the moat was proven.

Before VartaForge there was Bobhata, a Marathi-only single-tenant article generator built for a specific publication. In editor blind tests, Bobhata-generated articles were indistinguishable from staff-written ones. The failure modes that other AI tools collapse to had been engineered out at the model layer, not papered over with a prompt.

3,200+
Bobhata-generated articles published, across two years and one masthead.

Bobhata proved the moat exists. VartaForge productizes the mechanism so any Indian-language newsroom can use it.

From the pilot · Pune
Drafts come back in our Marathi, not the Mumbai Marathi every other tool gives us. The Pune ear is in there.
SK
Sandeep K.
Editor · regional Marathi daily · Pune

Built for every tier of Indian publishing.

Pricing is set per organization, per language. We'll walk you through it on a demo. No self-serve credit-card flow; that isn't how serious newsrooms buy.

Indie

Single journalist, single language, full voice fidelity.

  • One Voice Card
  • One language pack
  • Full editorial workflow
  • Audio Script
  • Trends Radar
  • WordPress publishing

Hyperlocal

District-level digital pubs and small-team newsrooms.

  • Up to two Voice Cards
  • One or two languages
  • Wire-to-Article
  • Sports Recap
  • Translation Bridge
  • WordPress and Quintype publishing
Phase 3

Network

Conglomerates and broadcaster networks.

  • Everything in Daily
  • On-prem deployment
  • SSO and audit trails
  • Custom Cultural KG enrichment
  • Dedicated support engineer

Pricing is built for the Indian regional market. Annual contracts available for editions running 100 or more articles a month.

A short list

Things we will not do.

Editor sovereignty.

Every output is a draft. Every workflow ends with a human approval. We will never position AI as replacing the editor.

Voice is property.

We will never use one publisher's Voice Card to serve another. Your voice is yours, full stop.

Vernacular is native.

We will not treat Indian languages as English with a translator. Every script we support is supported as a first language.

Regional reality.

We will not pretend Marathi is one Marathi or Hindi is one Hindi. The whole point of cultural fluency is that the regions are different.

Indian publishing economics.

We will not price like US-SaaS. The plans, deployment options, and partner integrations are built for regional Indian publishing.

Ready to see VartaForge in your voice?

A 30-minute demo, on a Voice Card built from your own articles. No commitment, no slide deck.