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Setting up a multilingual AI agent

One agent, twelve Indian languages, zero extra training. The handoff transcript is translated on the fly.

3 min readUpdated 09 Mar 2026

The agent auto-detects the language of each incoming message and replies in the same language using your trained tone. No separate 'Hindi agent' or 'Tamil agent' setup is required.

Languages supported end-to-end

  • English, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Punjabi, Odia, Assamese.
  • Transliterated Hinglish — 'kitne ka hai', 'order kab ayega' etc. — detected as Hindi.
  • Mixed-language messages handled gracefully; the agent replies in the primary language.

When the AI hands off to a human agent who doesn't speak the customer's language, the inbox shows the original message plus a translation above it, and your typed reply goes back to the customer in their language automatically.

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