Developer Builds Hindi AI Voice Agent in 10 Days to Shield Families from Scams

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A developer built Suraksha Saathi, an AI voice agent designed to help Indian families identify scams, as part of the VoiceForBharat 10 Days of AI Voice Agents Challenge. The tool allows users to converse naturally in Hindi to verify suspicious messages, such as fake lottery notifications on WhatsApp. It was built using Murf Falcon for text-to-speech, LiveKit for real-time voice, and Google Gemini as the underlying language model. A key technical hurdle involved database lookups before conversations began, which was resolved by separating that logic into a standalone Python script rather than relying on AI prompts. The project went from an empty template to a fully functional anti-fraud agent within ten days and has been shared publicly on GitHub.

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