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India currently has 22 officially recognised languages and more than 10,000 local languages, making it complicated to code an AI model that can process all these languages seamlessly.
Translation is a complex matrix in India, a country that speaks at least 121 languages. One saying in Hindi loosely translates to “every two miles, the taste of water changes, and every eight ...
Furthermore, official languages make up only a tiny fraction of over 1,600 languages spoken within its borders. "The only use-case of an 'Indian' LLM is if it works in our various languages, which is ...
Tamil was the first language in India to be accorded classical language status in 2004. Sanskrit, Kannada, Malayalam, and Odia are the other languages that have been declared classical languages ...
In a significant development, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday announced the extension of translation services in Parliament to six additional languages -- Bodo, Dogri, Maithili, Manipuri ...
Samanth Subramanian reports on Ganesh Devy, the scholar documenting India’s languages and pushing against the B.J.P.’s campaign to make the country embrace Hindi.