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Healthify and OpenAI debut Ria Voice, a realtime AI health coach
Your voice assistant already knows what song you want to hear. But what if it could actually help you lose weight? Healthify and OpenAI are betting big that the answer is yes.
With the launch of Ria Voice, a realtime multimodal AI health coach, the two companies are stitching together nutrition, fitness, sleep, stress, and metabolic data into a single, fast-moving conversation. It understands more than 60 languages. It has trained on hundreds of millions of real exchanges between human coaches and real users.
And it speaks back with natural timing, not a robotic monologue, but a dialogue that feels immediate. This is not a static chatbot wearing a wellness badge; it is a live, listening guide. For Healthify CEO Tushar Vashisht, it’s the moment a long-held vision finally scales.
For OpenAI’s Pragya Misra, it’s exactly what their realtime infrastructure was built to do: turn voice from a menu into an experience. The question now is whether a coach that never sleeps can replace the one you actually trust.
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.
This is more than a product launch. It’s the moment when digital wellness stops feeling like a spreadsheet and starts feeling like a conversation. By marrying Healthify’s billions of human coaching interactions with OpenAI’s real-time voice architecture, Ria Voice doesn’t just answer questions, it understands context, mood, and intention across dozens of languages.
The tech is impressive. The real breakthrough is trust: a coach that listens as fast as you speak, that knows your sleep, your stress, your last meal, and speaks back in your mother tongue. That’s not incremental.
That’s a new baseline for what personalized health can be. The question now isn’t whether AI can guide us, it’s whether we’re ready to be guided.
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Common Questions Answered
How does Ria Voice use OpenAI's Realtime API to provide personalized health guidance?
Ria Voice leverages OpenAI's Realtime API to process multiple health dimensions simultaneously, including nutrition, exercise, sleep patterns, and metabolic indicators. The technology enables human-like speed in analyzing and responding to complex health data in real-time.
What makes Ria Voice different from traditional fitness tracking apps?
Unlike generic fitness apps, Ria Voice integrates comprehensive health tracking across food, fitness, sleep, stress, and metabolic data into a single platform. The AI-powered health companion provides personalized, conversational guidance through advanced voice interaction technology.
Who are the key leaders behind the Ria Voice health technology?
Tushar Vashisht, co-founder and CEO of Healthify, and Pragya Misra, head of strategy and global affairs for OpenAI in India, are the primary leaders driving this innovative health technology. They aim to transform personalized health monitoring through AI-powered real-time data processing.
Further Reading
- Healthify enhances its AI assistant Ria by adding live conversational features — Bitget
- Healthify Unveils Advanced Real-Time AI Assistant Ria Featuring Voice and Camera Capabilities — Portal do Holanda
- Saving lives with AI health coaching — OpenAI
- Healthify Integrates Real-Time Conversations on Ria — Find Articles
