Adi Vaani: AI-Based Platform for Tribal Languages

Why in News?

The Ministry of Tribal Affairs held the first meeting of the Working Group on Tribal Languages in a hybrid workshop mode. The meeting reviewed the progress of Adi Vaani, a platform developed by IIT Delhi in collaboration with the Ministry to support tribal languages through digital technologies.

About Adi Vaani

Adi Vaani is a digital platform designed to facilitate translation and improve access to educational and linguistic resources in tribal languages.

Key Features

• Translation: Provides text-to-text translation in nine tribal languages.
• Speech technology: Includes speech-related features to support language accessibility.
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Enables text recognition from images and scanned materials.
• Video subtitling: Supports the creation of subtitles for video content.
• Educational resources: Provides searchable access to more than 300 primers prepared by Tribal Research Institutes (TRIs).

Progress and Achievements

• Text data: State TRIs have contributed approximately 13.9 lakh text sentences in ten languages.
• Speech data: Around 300 hours of speech data have been collected.
• Digital reach: The platform has recorded over 48,000 Android downloads.
• Monthly users: It has approximately 6,500 monthly users.

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