What is Bhashini Platform?

July 5, 2023

Prime Minister recently pitched for sharing India's AI-based language platform, Bhashini, with SCO member countries to remove language barriers within the international grouping.

About Bhashini Platform :

  • Digital India BHASHINI, 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 it is also accessible via respective Android and iOS apps.
  • How does it work?
    • The project is available on this website: https://www.bhashini.gov.in/en/ and it is aimed to build and develop an ecosystem where various stakeholders like institutions, industry players, research groups, academia and individuals can unite to maintain an ‘ever-evolving repository of data, training and benchmark datasets, open models, tools and technologies.
    • The contribution can be done in four ways -- Suno India, Likho India, Bolo India and Dekho India -- where users have to type what they hear or have to validate texts transcribed by others.