Healthify & OpenAI Launch Ria Voice, Realtime Multimodal AI Health Coach

Bangalore-based digital wellness platform Healthify has launched Ria Voice, a real-time AI health coach that uses OpenAI’s Realtime API to deliver natural, speech-to-speech coaching.

The global rollout makes Healthify one of the first companies to bring a fully multimodal, audio-native health agent into production, enabling users to speak to the coach, show it their meals or activity, and receive instant, context-aware guidance.

Ria Voice represents the 3.0 evolution of Healthify’s AI stack and moves beyond older voice assistants that depended on transcribing speech before generating a response. Operating natively in audio allows the system to detect emotions, handle diverse accents, support code-mixed languages, and respond with minimal latency.

The coach draws on nutrition, fitness, sleep, stress, glucose, heart rate and body composition data, enabling a level of personalisation that mimics human coaching. Users can log food by describing their meal or pointing their camera at a plate, eliminating the friction of manual entries.

“Our mission at Healthify has always been to put a personal coach in your pocket. With Ria Voice, we’re finally able to bring that vision to life at a global scale,” Tushar Vashisht, co-founder and CEO of Healthify, said. “By leveraging OpenAI’s Realtime API, Ria can understand your food, fitness, sleep, stress and metabolic data in one place and respond with human-like speed.”

Pragya Misra, head of strategy and global affairs, India at OpenAI, said the product reflects what OpenAI’s new real-time infrastructure was designed for. “Our Realtime API can transform voice AI from a static interface into a conversational experience. Healthify has used this capability to build a coach that is fast, responsive and capable of the nuance required for personal wellness,” she said.

Ria Voice supports more than 60 global languages, including over 14 Indian languages, and is trained on hundreds of millions of real-world conversations between Healthify customers and human coaches. It can also generate customised diet plans based on preferences, allergies and macro goals, expanding its role beyond logging and recommendations.

The company is making the experience available not just on its app but also through WhatsApp and wearable devices. Through integration with Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, users can talk to Ria hands-free and track meals via photos captured directly on the device—making Healthify one of the earliest health apps built for Meta’s smart glasses ecosystem.