SraVaani, Applications, Latest News

SraVaani Latest News

Recently, researchers at IISc’s SPIRE Lab, in collaboration with ARTPARK and Google, have released SraVaani.

About SraVaani

• It is the first multilingual Indian speech recognition model.
• It extends automatic speech recognition to several regional and non-scheduled Indian languages that remain underserved by existing speech technology.
• It covers 20 scheduled languages and 45 regional languages and dialects.
• It can convert spoken words into text across 10 scripts and automatically identify the language being spoken, without users having to select one first.
• The model supports languages such as Garo, Angika, Chakma, Kokborok, Tulu, Bundeli and Bajjika.
• The SraVaani model is based on Project Vaani, one of IISc’s major programsto understand the linguistic diversity of India.
  • The project has gathered around 31,000 hours of speech data obtained from over 156,000 speakers from 165 regions, thus providing the needed information about natural conversational-speech to the researchers.
  • SraVaani uses a FastConformer-based automatic speech recognition architecture.
• Applications: It could support applications in areas such as education, digital services, banking, healthcare, e-governance and customer support, particularly where users prefer interacting in regional languages.

Source: TH