- Published on February 20, 2024
- In AI Features
Project Vaani to English Gyani, This IISc Professor is Going Places
Professor Prasanta Kumar Ghosh from IISc Bangalore has figured out a unique way to collect speech data in different languages and dialects.
Image by Nikhil Kumar
- By Mohit Pandey
Professor Prasanta Kumar Ghosh from IISc Bangalore has figured out a unique way to collect speech data in different languages and dialects. Travelling to 80 districts in the first phase, showing local people a picture, asking them to describe it and then recording it has given the Google funded Project Vaani around 16,000 hours of speech data.
The team is open-sourcing the Vaani corpus and is transcribing around 10% of the data manually. The aim is to collect 150,000 hours of speech data from 773 districts of India. “India is not one language and not even several dialects, it's a continuum of languages, which requires a lot of research and development,” said Ghosh, in an exclusive interview with AIM.
Apart from this, Ghosh and his research team are also working on RESPIN
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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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