Indian Voice Assistant Developed by IIT Patna Will Speak 18 Languages

India'due south massive population presents a huge opportunity for vocalization-based awarding and has additional Google's and Amazon'southward efforts in developing Google Assistant and Alexa for Hindi, apart from English language. Yet, the market place for Indic languages is much larger, which is why NITI Aayog is collaborating with several researchers and developers at IIT Patna and fourteen other institutions to create a voice assistant capable of addressing queries in equally many as eighteen languages.

This vocalisation banana developed by the endeavors of NITI Aayog will have the required cognition to respond to queries related to agriculture, health, educational activity, and other professional skills. From what information technology seems, the assistant will come in handy for improving productivity and generate more employment and The Economic Times reports that many due east-commerce players have shown their desire to piece of work on the projection.

Besides giving information nigh professional ventures and skills, the virtual assistant will be capable of playing music, creating and updating checklists, streaming media and podcasts, reading out news, playing audiobooks and so on, just like Google Assistant and Alexa.

a conceptual dictionary, a first of its kind for India. This dictionary would help decipher correct meaning of words and help in translation, dialogue generation, question-answering and information retrieval in 18 Indian languages

Researchers from Indian Plant of Engineering (IIT) Patna are working on developing a natural linguistic communication processor (NLP) for the assistant likewise equally for other commercial applications. The squad working nether computer science veteran Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharya, Director, IIT Patna, has already developed an NLP which will be modified to meet the requirements prepare by the government besides as subsequently identifying the market place needs.

Prof. Bhattacharya confirmed to ET that his team has been working in collaboration with teams from 14 other institutions to create "a conceptual dictionary" which "would help decipher correct meaning of words and help in translation, dialogue generation, question-answering and information retrieval in 18 Indian languages", he said.

Too the commercially viable options, the project is too like to earn some funding from the government as function of Digital India and other digital literacy endeavors.