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Friendly Characters

Friendly Characters Limited

Voice-first AI for the world's most underserved languages.

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Mission

Why South Asian languages, why voice, why care matters.

The major commercial AI assistants speak fluent English and a handful of European languages. They struggle, often clumsily, with the languages spoken by hundreds of millions of people across South Asia — Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, and others.

We believe a person's first conversational AI experience should happen in the language they think and feel in. So we build voice-first AI designed from the ground up for South Asian users — not English experiences with translation bolted on.

We design carefully for cultural authenticity. We're transparent about pricing. And we treat user privacy as a product requirement, not a marketing claim.

What we're building

A small set of apps, made with deliberate care.

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Languages supported

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Distinct AI companions

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Product launching