Saarthi App

Sept. 13, 2024

Recently, Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) launched Saarthi app in collaboration with Bhashini.

About Saarthi App:

  • It is a reference application designed to assist businesses in creating their own customised buyer-side apps.
  • It supports network participants in building buyer apps with multilingual features.
  • The app initially supports Hindi, English, Marathi, Bangla and Tamil, with plans to scale up to all 22 languages provided by Bhashini.
  • Features: It includes real-time translation, transliteration, and voice recognition allow businesses to expand market reach, enabling companies to tap into new regions and increase customer acquisition.

What is Bhashini?

  • It is India's Artificial Intelligence (AI)-led language translation platform.
  • It seeks to enable easy access to the internet and digital services in Indian languages, including voice-based access, and help the creation of content in Indian languages.
  • It aims to make Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources available in the public domain to be used by -- Indian MSMEs, startups and individual innovators.
  • This will help developers to offer all Indians easy access to the internet and digital services in their native languages.
  • This online platform also has a separate ‘Bhasadaan’ section which allows individuals to contribute to multiple crowdsourcing initiatives and is also accessible via respective Android and iOS apps.