During his conversation with Siddharth Zarabi, Editor of Business Today, at the Business Today-India Today AI Conclave 2024, Nag discussed the transformative impact of Bhashini. Amitabh Nag, CEO of BHASHINI at MeitY, shared that the homegrown AI platform processes around 6 million inferences daily, making it one of the largest systems globally. He also highlighted how Bhashini has created digital data for languages like Sindhi, which previously lacked a digital presence. During his conversation with Siddharth Zarabi, Editor of Business Today, at the Business Today-India Today AI Conclave 2024, Nag discussed the transformative impact of Bhashini. “We face five core challenges,” he explained. “First, digital systems must be able to understand speech in 22 languages. Second, computers must be able to translate text from one language to another in these 22 languages. Third, a system must convert text into speech. Fourth, we need to interpret printed texts, which are scanned as pixels or images, and convert them into editable text. Lastly, there is a need to build a digital vocabulary for the country — many names and terms are present in physical dictionaries but are missing in digital forms. This is a significant area we are working on,” he […]
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