National conference on AI for Indian languages March 20

A national conference on artificial intelligence supporting Indian languages will take place on March 20. The event is organized by the Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL) in Mysuru. It is part of a Ministry of Education initiative. The conference will focus on evaluating and improving AI applications for Indian languages. Given the country's diversity of languages, the LDC-IL emphasizes the need for technology to support all of them. Over two days, 25 speakers from leading academic institutions and companies will present their insights. Companies like OpenAI, ChatGPT, and BharatGen will be represented. They will discuss the challenges faced by Indian languages in the AI landscape. New datasets developed by LDC-IL will be unveiled at the conference. The Central Institute of Indian Languages will also launch tools for multilingual AI and non-AI applications, available for public use. These tools include Anuvadika, a translation engine, and Anuvachika, a Text-to-Speech engine. Another tool, Anulekhika, offers transcription services from audio files. Lipyantara provides transliteration between different Indian scripts. More details about the national conference can be found on the LDC-IL website.