- Published on December 5, 2024
- In IT Services
Why India is Even Building Speech Models
If the future is all about communication in voice and giving it to the millions of UPI users in the country, speech models are necessary.
Image by Nalini Nirad
- By Mohit Pandey
Voice remains one of the most crucial modalities when it comes to AI-driven solutions for urban India and rural Bharat. The issue, though, pertains to the unavailability of sufficient data for all the Indian languages and their hundreds of dialects. This is often referred to as the missing link for the Indian language chatbots.
However, there are organisations and companies that are looking to solve this problem.
AI4Bharat, the research group based at IIT Madras, recently introduced Indic Parler-TTS, an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model built for over a billion Indic speakers. The model was released in collaboration with Hugging Face and aims to bring accessibility and high-quality speech to diverse linguistic communities.
Introducing Indic Parler-TTS: Open-Source Text-
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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