IIT Madras's Bodhan AI and AI4Bharat launch 4 Indic models
IIT Madras's Bodhan AI, along with AI4Bharat, has launched four new AI models to make technology more accessible across India's many languages.
The lineup includes Indic-Transcribe (speech recognition), Indic-Speak (text-to-speech), Indic-Translate (machine translation), and Indic-OCR (optical character recognition).
These tools are all about helping developers create smarter, localized apps for India's diverse language scene.
NVIDIA NeMo powers 3 models
All four models, excluding the text-to-speech model, were powered by NVIDIA's NeMo framework, basically a toolkit for building advanced AI.
Mitesh Khapra, Principal Investigator at Bodhan AI and AI4Bharat, shared that their goal was to give Indian developers flexible, cutting-edge resources they can tweak for local needs.
It's a big step toward making AI work better for everyone in India.