Ankur Edkie

Ankur Edkie is the CEO and Co-founder of Murf AI, an AI voice infrastructure company building conversational and agentic AI systems. 

Murf AI has evolved from a voice synthesis platform into a production-scale speech layer powering real-time AI voice agents across industries such as banking, insurance, and customer support.

Falcon, Murf’s foundational text-to-speech model, is built specifically for low-latency conversational AI deployments. It delivers speech at roughly 130 milliseconds time-to-first-audio, enabling AI voice agents to respond quickly enough for natural, human-like interactions.

The platform supports more than 35 languages and offers extensive Indian language coverage, including native code-mixed speech support that allows seamless switching between English and regional languages within the same conversation.

Under Edkie’s leadership, Murf AI has built a purpose-built voice stack instead of adapting traditional text-based AI systems for speech applications. This infrastructure-first approach has helped the company gain adoption by thousands of businesses globally while positioning it as an emerging player in India’s rapidly growing agentic AI ecosystem.