Online content in Indian languages low, says expert
10 years, 2 months ago

Online content in Indian languages low, says expert

India TV News  

Kolkata: Online content in Indian languages in the areas of entertainment, e-shopping and local services is significantly low in comparison to content in English, a programming expert said here Friday. According to M. Krishna Doss, senior program manager, Microsoft India, there is a shortage of original content in Indic languages which form the dominant linguistic family of the Indian subcontinent. "In terms of languages in the digital world, there is a paucity in original content in Indian languages as compared to that in English," Doss said during a lecture in the tenth anniversary of Bengali Wikimedia community at Jadavpur University here. "In these sectors, content is being generated a lot in English but not in Indian languages," he said.

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