National conference on AI tools supporting Indian languages begins at CIIL in Mysuru

The two-day national conference on the “Evaluation and benchmarking of publicly available artificial intelligence applications that support Indian languages” began at the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysuru on Thursday. After a formal inaugural session, a series of plenary sessions and paper presentations were held where experts shared their thoughts on the topics related to the evaluation and efficacy of AI applications for Indian languages. Speaking on the theme, CIIL Deputy Director Umarani Pappuswamy said the conference is a crucial collaborative platform for discussing benchmarking related to the Indian linguistic landscape. The web-based tools, include Anuvadika, a translation engine focused on Indian languages equipped with ASR and TTS modules; Anuvachika, a Text-to-Speech engine that can be used to readily download speech for any given text in supported Indian languages; Anulekhika, an ASR tool where one speaks and writes or gets a transcription of the uploaded audio files; and Lipyantara, a transliteration engine that supports on-the-fly transliteration of text from one Indian script to another Indian script.