Flipkart, which is one of the leading online shopping platforms in India, has announced that it has acquired AI-led speech recognition startup Liv.ai this week. The undisclosed deal is

likely being designed for Flipkart to cater to voice-search needs of consumers in varied parts of the country. Voice recognition could be just the start, with more extensive voice

assistants, like Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri could build on in the coming years. Flipkart has heavily focused on artificial intelligence for its back-end shopping experience and with

Liv-ai it could expand its base around the technology. Founded in 2015, Liv.AI claims to be the first Indian company to build speech-to-text APIs that enable low-latency speech-to-text