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Kannada AI Receptionist
Give your Kannada-speaking customers a helpful answer, even when your team is busy. Our AI receptionist answers in Kannada or English with a warm Southern Karnataka voice, books appointments, takes messages and puts callers through to your staff when they need a person.
- Speaks Kannada and English
- Answers 24/7
Kannada call
DishaSouthern Karnataka Kannada accentCaller
ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ. ನನ್ನ ಮಗನಿಗೆ ಹಲ್ಲಿನ ತಪಾಸಣೆಗೆ ಅಪಾಯಿಂಟ್ಮೆಂಟ್ ಬೇಕಿತ್ತು.
Hello. I'd like an appointment for my son's dental check-up.
Disha
ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ. ಖಂಡಿತ. ಯಾವ ದಿನ ನಿಮಗೆ ಅನುಕೂಲ?
Hello. Certainly. Which day suits you?
Caller
ಶನಿವಾರ ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ ಆಗುತ್ತಾ?
Would Saturday morning work?
What is a Kannada AI receptionist?
A Kannada AI receptionist answers your business phone in Kannada or English, so callers can book, ask a question or leave a message in the language that feels natural to them.
Waboom AI offers Disha, a Kannada voice with a Southern Karnataka accent, with call handling set up around your business. Built for businesses across New Zealand and Australia.
Answering and making calls for businesses across New Zealand and Australia
Try our Kannada AI receptionist
Talk to Disha in English or Kannada. Ask for Kannada, or simply start speaking it, and she switches with you.
Multilingual receptionistDisha
Southern Karnataka Kannada accent
Start in English, then ask her to speak Kannada.
Your own AI receptionist is set up around your business: opening hours, services, bookings and how calls are passed to your staff.
Where Kannada-language phone answering helps
When a Kannada-speaking caller hears a respectful answer in Kannada, booking, asking a question or leaving a message is simpler for them and for your team.
Dental clinics
Book check-ups, move and cancel appointments and take messages for the practice team in Kannada. The receptionist handles admin only and passes anything clinical to your staff.
Childcare and early learning
Parents can ask about places and opening hours, book a centre tour or leave a message for a teacher in Kannada, and your team gets a summary in English.
Property management
Tenants can report a maintenance issue, book an inspection or leave a message for their property manager in Kannada. Urgent issues are put through to your team.
Grocery and specialty stores
Answer questions about opening hours, stock and orders in Kannada or English, and take messages so your counter staff can keep serving customers.
How we set up your Kannada AI receptionist
Three steps. We do the heavy lifting.
Tell us about your callers
Which languages they speak, what they call about, and what a good call ends with: a booking, a message or a transfer.
We build and test it in Kannada
Your greeting, hours, services and booking rules in English and Kannada, tested on calls with your own names and places.
Go live on your number
Forward your existing number. Every call comes with a transcript and summary, and we keep improving it.
What makes Kannada-language calls different?
Speaking Kannada well on the phone takes more than translating English sentences.
A Southern Karnataka voice
Disha speaks with a Southern Karnataka accent, the one Kannada voice we offer. Callers from North Karnataka, the coast and elsewhere can talk to Disha, and we test with your own callers before go-live.
Neevu and avare
Kannada has a respectful "ನೀವು" and a familiar "ನೀನು" for you. A business should always use ನೀವು, and adds ಅವರೇ after a name when speaking to someone with respect, such as "ಸುಮಾ ಅವರೇ". The receptionist uses both by default.
Initials before the given name
Many Kannada names start with initials for the family place and the father's name, such as B. S. Suresh, and many people have no surname at all. Your records may show the name in a different order, so the summary your team gets in English shows the name as the caller gave it, ready to match.
Kannada numerals and digits
Kannada has its own numerals, such as ೧೨೩ for 123, though everyday writing mostly uses the digits used in English. The receptionist speaks numbers in Kannada, reads phone numbers back one digit at a time, and confirms every booking with the weekday and the date in full.
An example call in Kannada
A mother books a dental check-up for her son and the agent reads her phone number back. Illustrative example, not a recording.
Caller
ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ. ನನ್ನ ಮಗನಿಗೆ ಹಲ್ಲಿನ ತಪಾಸಣೆಗೆ ಅಪಾಯಿಂಟ್ಮೆಂಟ್ ಬೇಕಿತ್ತು.
Hello. I'd like an appointment for my son's dental check-up.
Disha
ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ. ಖಂಡಿತ. ಯಾವ ದಿನ ನಿಮಗೆ ಅನುಕೂಲ?
Hello. Certainly. Which day suits you?
Caller
ಶನಿವಾರ ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ ಆಗುತ್ತಾ?
Would Saturday morning work?
Disha
ಶನಿವಾರ ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ ಒಂಬತ್ತೂವರೆಗೆ ಸಮಯ ಖಾಲಿ ಇದೆ. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹೆಸರು ಮತ್ತು ಫೋನ್ ನಂಬರ್ ಹೇಳುತ್ತೀರಾ?
There is a time available on Saturday at half past nine in the morning. Could you tell me your name and phone number?
Caller
ನನ್ನ ಹೆಸರು ಸುಮಾ. ನಂಬರ್ ಸೊನ್ನೆ ಎರಡು ಒಂದು, ಒಂದು ಎರಡು ಮೂರು, ನಾಲ್ಕು ಐದು ಆರು ಏಳು.
My name is Suma. The number is 021 123 4567.
Disha
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು, ಸುಮಾ ಅವರೇ. ನಂಬರ್ ಮತ್ತೆ ಹೇಳುತ್ತೇನೆ: ಸೊನ್ನೆ, ಎರಡು, ಒಂದು, ಒಂದು, ಎರಡು, ಮೂರು, ನಾಲ್ಕು, ಐದು, ಆರು, ಏಳು. ಸರಿಯಾಗಿದೆಯಾ?
Thank you, Suma. Let me repeat the number: 0 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Is that correct?
Caller
ಹೌದು, ಸರಿ ಇದೆ.
Yes, that's right.
Disha
ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮಗನ ಅಪಾಯಿಂಟ್ಮೆಂಟ್ ಶನಿವಾರ, ಅಕ್ಟೋಬರ್ 24ರಂದು ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ ಒಂಬತ್ತೂವರೆಗೆ ನಿಗದಿಯಾಗಿದೆ. ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು!
Your son's appointment is set for Saturday 24 October at half past nine in the morning. Thank you!
What the AI can handle
- Answers calls in English and Kannada
- Books, moves and cancels appointments when connected to your calendar
- Answers common questions from your business information
- Takes messages and sends a call summary to your team
- Transfers a caller to your staff when they need a person
- Covers after-hours and busy periods
Regulated industries
For health, aged care, legal, financial and immigration businesses the agent handles admin enquiries only: bookings, opening hours, directions and messages. It does not give medical, legal or financial advice in Kannada or English. Those questions go to your qualified staff.
Pay for talk time only
Kannada calls cost the same per minute as English. Load credit once, it never expires, and every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
See full pricing- New Zealand
- 95c to 77c a minute
- Plus GST, from $500 of credit
- Australia
- 95c to 71c a minute
- In AUD, from A$500 of credit
Plus $130 a month for the platform. The more credit you load, the less each minute costs.
Rated 5.0 on Google
Read all reviews on Google (opens in a new tab)- ★★★★★
The AI Receptionist has been fantastic for our team at Rangehood Solutions. It’s taken a huge amount of workload off us, especially when we’re a staff member down, and means we can keep looking after customers without calls being missed.
Rangehood Solutions
AI receptionist client, New Zealand
- ★★★★★
It handles hundreds of calls a day, prospecting, qualifying sellers, and building a pipeline for future deals. … Not a set-and-forget service, they actually care about results.
James Mairs
Auckland apartment agency
- ★★★★★
Getting an entire team, from our IT manager to our admin staff, aligned on AI is not easy. Leo made it look easy! … No hype. No theory.
Shiv Narayan
Technology Solutions NZ
$253,000 saved in one year, by no one being pulled off their work to answer phones.
Every call used to cost someone about 25 minutes: the call itself, then getting back into their work. Across the team that added up to more than 1,650 hours a year. Now their AI receptionist answers every call.
- 4,000 calls answered in a year
- 1,650+ hours of team time back
- <1 sec to answer, every time
Every call answered, every booking captured
AI receptionistCalls answered, messages passed, transfers made
GML Lawyers' AI receptionist answers inbound calls, takes and passes messages to the right person, and transfers callers within their existing VoIP system.
Bookings taken while hands are full
While the stylists are mid-colour, the AI receptionist answers, books the appointment, and texts the client a confirmation. No ringing phone, no lost chair.
Switch off, let the AI hold the phone
Start delegating the admin to AI and get your time back. Your receptionist answers every call, books the job, and passes only the urgent ones to you.
Kannada AI receptionist: common questions
Which Kannada accents does the AI receptionist speak?
One: Disha has a female Kannada voice with a Southern Karnataka accent. We do not offer a North Karnataka or coastal Kannada voice. Callers with other accents can talk to Disha too, and before go-live we run test calls with your own callers so you can hear how it handles them.
Can callers switch between English and Kannada?
Yes. The receptionist switches to Kannada when a caller asks for it or starts speaking Kannada, and back to English the same way. It is easiest to follow when each sentence stays in one language, so it confirms key details before saving them.
Does it understand phone numbers spoken in Kannada?
Yes. A phone number spoken in Kannada was transcribed correctly in our tests. The receptionist also reads numbers back to the caller before saving them, so any mistake gets fixed on the call.
Does it speak to callers respectfully?
Yes. It uses the respectful "ನೀವು" by default and adds ಅವರೇ after a caller's name, the way a Kannada business would. Before go-live we test it with your own callers and call types.
Can I try a Kannada demo now?
Yes. Talk to the Kannada agent on this page, in your browser. Calls run for up to four minutes.
Can we keep our 1300 or 1800 number?
Yes. You keep your number and forward calls to the AI receptionist, all the time or only when you are busy, do not answer or are closed. A mobile number can forward the same way. You do not need a new number.
Can it transfer calls to our staff and send a summary?
Yes. It can put a caller through to a staff member's mobile when they need a person, and it sends a summary of every call to your team, with the transcript in your portal.
Can it give medical, legal or financial advice in Kannada?
No. In regulated industries the agent handles admin only: bookings, opening hours, directions and messages. Anything that needs advice goes to your qualified staff.
Does a Kannada receptionist cost more than English?
No. Kannada calls are charged at the same per-minute rate as English, from 95c a minute down to 77c in New Zealand and 71c in Australia. Credit never expires and every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Where is call data stored?
Transcripts, call records, contact details and billing are stored in Sydney. The live audio, recording files, speech processing and the language model run offshore. We meet cross-border accountability requirements through documented arrangements with our voice infrastructure partner.
Ready to welcome more Kannada-speaking customers?
Tell us what your customers usually call about, and we will show you how a Kannada-speaking AI receptionist would handle those calls.
- Answers in Kannada and English, around the clock
- Built around your services, hours and booking rules
- Credit that never expires, from $500
- Every plan backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee
Choose a time on our calendar. It takes less than a minute.
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