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Jul 4, 2022 15 tweets 5 min read
PM Narendra Modi Launches Bhashini at Digital India Week 2022.

Here is why this will be a big enabler for pushing Open Source Artificial Intelligence development in India.

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🧵 1/n What is Bhashini?

Bhashini is a National Public Digital Platform for languages created with a mission to develop services and products for citizens in their local languages by leveraging the power of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

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Mar 20, 2021 7 tweets 8 min read
Open Source Alert: Very excited to announce we are open sourcing Vakyash, a speech recognition framework to democratize speech recognition in Indic Languages.

Some key features:

1. End to end training and experimentation platform built on top of @facebookai Wav2Vec 2.0. 2. State of the art pretrained and finetuned models in 8 Indic languages including some low resource languages.

(Hindi, Indian English, Kannada, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati)