Project Vaani

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Project Vaani will be implemented jointly by the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), ARTPARK (AI and Robotics Technology Park), and Google to gather speech data from across India for the creation of an AI-based language model that can understand diverse Indian languages and dialects.
Under Project Vaani, diverse languages used across India will be mapped by collecting speech sets of around 1 million people from 773 districts over 3 years.
The estimated cost of this project is around 30 to 40 million USD.
It is part of the Bengaluru-based IISc and Artpark’s Bhasha AI project that includes RESPIN (Recognizing Speech in Indian languages) and SYSPIN (Synthesizing Speech in Indian languages).
The project would involve IISc and Google recording around 1.5 lakh hours of speech, part of which will be transcribed in local scripts.
This project uses a district-anchored approach, which involves recording local speeches by randomly selecting over 1,000 people from each district.