{"id":119380,"date":"2026-08-16T12:38:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T07:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=119380"},"modified":"2026-08-16T13:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:26:59","slug":"sravaani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sravaani\/","title":{"rendered":"SraVaani"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>SraVaani Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, researchers at IISc\u2019s SPIRE Lab, in collaboration with ARTPARK and Google, have released SraVaani.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About SraVaani<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>first multilingual Indian speech recognition model.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It extends automatic speech recognition to <\/span><b>several regional and non-scheduled Indian languages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that remain underserved by existing speech technology.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It covers <\/span><b>20 scheduled <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/indian-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">languages<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and 45 regional languages and dialects.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can convert <\/span><b>spoken words into text across 10 scripts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and automatically identify the language being spoken, without users having to select one first.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The model supports languages such as <\/span><b>Garo, Angika, Chakma, Kokborok, Tulu, Bundeli and Bajjika.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The SraVaani model is based on <\/span><b>Project Vaani, one of IISc\u2019s major programs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, to understand the linguistic diversity of India.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project has gathered around 31,000 hours of speech data obtained from over 156,000 speakers from 165 regions, thus providing the needed information about natural conversational-speech to the researchers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SraVaani uses a <\/span><b>FastConformer-based automatic speech recognition<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> architecture.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Applications:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It could support applications in areas such as <\/span><b>education, digital services, banking, healthcare, e-governance <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and customer support, particularly where users prefer interacting in regional languages.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/first-multilingual-indian-speech-recognition-model-trained-on-65-languages-and-dialects-released\/article71341129.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SraVaani is India\u2019s first multilingual speech recognition model, supporting 20 scheduled languages, 45 regional languages and 10 scripts. 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