Mirakash vs PolyAI
Reviewed 2026-08-15Their strengths,first, and not hedged.
- Long experience in spoken conversation specifically — they were doing voice properly before the current wave.
- Strong enterprise references in hospitality, banking and telecoms.
- Good at the hard parts of real telephony: accents, noise, interruption.
What we can dothat is hard to answer.
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Indian languages on real phone calls
Malayalam, Hindi and Tamil among others, for both speech recognition and speech synthesis, on the public telephone network — not an English model with an accent setting, and not text-only. This is the difference that decides most deals we win: a platform built for English-speaking markets can be excellent and still be unusable for a call centre in Kerala.
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A pipeline you can take apart
Speech-to-text, the language model and text-to-speech are separate stages behind one interface, so any of the three can be swapped — for cost, for quality, or for a language a particular vendor handles badly. Most platforms in this category are a single opinionated stack. That is simpler, and it is also why a customer who needs a different speech vendor for one language has no move to make.
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Per-second billing, and voicemail detected
Calls bill on connected seconds rather than rounded-up minutes, and an answering machine is detected so a voicemail is neither billed nor talked to as though it were a person. On an outbound campaign where a third of dials reach voicemail, the difference between those two billing models is most of the bill.
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Self-hostable, and your credentials stay yours
The platform is API-first and can run in your own infrastructure, and bring-your-own vendor keys are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM. For regulated buyers who cannot send call audio to a vendor's cloud, this is frequently the whole decision.
When you should pickPolyAI instead.
You are a large brand with a mainly English-speaking customer base, buying a managed enterprise assistant with implementation included.
We would rather tell you that now than three weeks into an evaluation. If that describes you, they are a good choice and we will say so on the call.
Everything on this page about PolyAI is drawn from their own public positioning and reviewed on 2026-08-15. Products move, and this one may be out of date before we notice — if we have got something wrong about PolyAI, tell us at mirakash.com/contact and we will correct it. We are not interested in winning an argument with a page nobody can reply to.