SOVA
SOVA · Moscow, Russia · founded 1997
What it is
SOVA is a free, open-source ecosystem for building conversational AI, including virtual assistants, chatbots, speech tools, and neural-network software. SOVA IDE gives teams an environment to develop, test, and release assistants, with a knowledge base, dialog processor, and team development features. Its dialog language supports rules, variables, external database queries, and modular dialogue structures. ChatKit provides React components for chat widgets, with file sending, media, message editing, search, and channel selection. SOVA ASR converts recorded or live speech into text, while SOVA TTS turns text into audio; the maker says both run locally and are licensed under Apache 2.0 for academic and commercial development. The maker lists 28,853 hours of labeled Russian and English audio under CC-BY 4.0. Products can run offline, in Azure or AWS, or locally through Docker. SOVA Mobile for iOS and Android supports text and voice messaging, multiple assistants, and conversation history. Documentation and a community are available for support, and enterprise inquiries go to Sales.
For and against
For
- SOVA IDE includes assistant development and testing tools.
- ChatKit supports search and channel selection.
- Speech tools are licensed under Apache 2.0.
- Products can run offline or locally with Docker.
- SOVA Mobile supports text and voice messaging.
Against
- Enterprise version requires contacting Sales.
- Listed audio dataset covers Russian and English.
The verdict
SOVA brings assistant development, chat components, and speech tools into a free open-source ecosystem. Review its deployment options and language coverage to see whether they suit your project.
Who it suits
SOVA may suit developers and teams building assistants, chatbots, or speech applications who want an open-source ecosystem. Its offline and local deployment options may be useful to teams that need those operating modes.
Plans and prices
Free
SOVA ecosystem access · virtual-assistant development
Read 15 Oct 2026 · sova.ai
SOVA open-source products
Maker describes the ecosystem as free and offers free downloads; enterprise version is available by contacting sales
Read 7 Oct 2026 · sova.ai
Enterprise
Commercial development · consulting · corporate education
Read 15 Oct 2026 · sova.ai
On the record
- API
- The SOVA ASR repository exposes the recognizer as a REST API and documents POST requests to the /asr endpoint.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- ASR customization
- The ASR project allows custom code and models, acoustic-model fine-tuning and alternative decoder configuration.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- ASR repository popularity
- The SOVA ASR repository shows 170 stars and 23 forks on GitHub.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Assistant development
- SOVA IDE provides an environment to develop, test, and release virtual assistants, with a knowledge base, dialog processor, and team development features.sova.ai · read 7 Oct 2026
- ChatKit
- ChatKit is a React chat-widget library that can connect to chatbots, NLP systems, live chat services or messengers.sova.ai · read 15 Oct 2026
- ChatKit features
- ChatKit lists cards, sliders, buttons, links, file sending, emoji, media, message editing, ratings, read status, search and channel selection.sova.ai · read 15 Oct 2026
- ChatKit integrations
- The ChatKit repository lists dialog-language, Facebook, Telegram, Rasa and LiveTex modules.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company facts on LinkedIn
- LinkedIn describes SOVA as a privately held information-technology company founded in 2018 with 51–200 employees and headquarters in San Francisco.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company history
- The maker says its work studying artificial intelligence began in 1997; it does not state a company founding year on the About page.sova.ai · read 7 Oct 2026
- Dataset
- SOVA publishes 28,853 hours of labeled Russian and English audio in about 2.9 TB of WAV files.sova.ai · read 15 Oct 2026
- Dataset licence
- The dataset is distributed under CC BY 4.0, allowing commercial use, copying, redistribution and derivative works with attribution.sova.ai · read 15 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- SOVA says its products can run offline, in Azure, AWS or Mail Cloud, and locally on Linux, iOS or Windows using Docker images.sova.ai · read 15 Oct 2026
- Deployment channels
- multichannelsova.ai · read 22 Sep 2026
- Developer ecosystem
- The official GitHub organization shows 38 public repositories, including ASR, TTS, dataset, dialog processor, skills and IDE-server projects.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Dialog language
- The dialog language supports synonymous input variants, commands, operators, functions, variables, external-database queries and modular libraries.sova.ai · read 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- Support is directed to documentation for FAQs and to a community forum for expert help.sova.ai · read 15 Oct 2026
- Enterprise
- The maker directs questions about its Enterprise version, commercial development, consulting, and corporate education to Sales.sova.ai · read 7 Oct 2026
- Founder
- Stanislav Ashmanov is listed as founder and CEO.sova.ai · read 15 Oct 2026
