- Published on February 15, 2023
- In Global Tech
How Microsoft is Helping Preserve Vulnerable Indic Languages with AI
“Our entire purpose in this project is to enable the community to build the technology.”
- By Pritam Bordoloi
Besides the 22 major languages recognised in the Indian Constitution, 19,569 dialects are spoken as mother tongues. According to UNESCO, around 192 of these languages are classified as vulnerable or endangered. Now, Microsoft—through Project ELLORA—wants to leverage the power of AI and help preserve these languages, which have limited written resources, let alone any digital presence.
“The project is about enabling language communities with technology. We want to put out a whole series of tools and pipelines so that communities can build technologies for themselves, to a certain extent at least,” Kalika Bali, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India, told AIM.
An open-source framework
Project ELLORA aims to prevent these languages from lagging behind in the current
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Pritam Bordoloi
I have a keen interest in creative writing and artificial intelligence. As a journalist, I deep dive into the world of technology and analyse how it’s restructuring business models and reshaping society.
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