Project Vaani

Subject :Government Scheme

Context: Project Vaani scales decibels as it maps language landscape of India.

About Project Vaani:

Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), ARTPARK (AI and Robotics Technology Park) and Google have come together for mapping the language diversity of India.
Aim is to create data corpora of over 150,000 hours of speech, part of which will be transcribed in local scripts.
The Project diligently collects and curates datasets of natural speech and text from about 1 million people across all 773 districts of India will be open-sourced.
Open source is done through platforms like Bhashini (under the National Language Translation Mission, MeiTY).
Funding is done by Google.
Greater objective is to boost the development of technologies such as automatic speech recognition (ASR), speech to speech translation (SST), and natural language understanding (NLU) that reflect the ground realities of how Indians speak.