AI & ML
IIT Madras AI4Bharat Teaches AI to Understand Indian Dialects and Languages

Researchers at IIT Madras' AI4Bharat are collecting voices across India and building dialect-aware AI models for chat, translation, and Q&A. Builders of consumer AI should contribute or license dialect datasets early—language-first AI will unlock 300+ million non-English users, but only if you've trained on authentic, regional voice data.
Source: The Hindu Tech ↗
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