{"id":61399,"date":"2025-08-31T15:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=61399"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:27:34","slug":"adi-vaani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/adi-vaani\/","title":{"rendered":"Adi Vaani"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Adi Vaani Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India, is launching the Beta Version of \u201cAdi Vaani\u201d language translator.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Adi Vaani<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>AI-based translation tool<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that serves as the foundation for a future large language model dedicated to <\/span><b>tribal languages.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is India\u2019s first <\/span><b>AI-powered translator for tribal languages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is developed under the banner of <\/span><b>Janjatiya Gaurav Varsh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is designed to <strong>bridge communication gaps between tribal and non-tribal communitie<\/strong>s, while safeguarding endangered tribal languages using advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project combines advanced AI technologies with community-driven approaches to protect, promote, and revitalize tribal languages and cultures across India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is developed by a national consortium of premier institutions led by <\/span><b>IIT Delhi with BITS Pilani, IIIT Hyderabad, and IIIT Nava Raipur in collaboration with Tribal Research Institutes (TRIs)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Meghalaya,<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>The project aims to:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Enable real-time translation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (text and speech) between Hindi\/English and tribal languages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Provide <\/span><b>interactive language learning<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for students and early learners.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Digitally preserve folklore<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, oral traditions, and cultural heritage.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Support digital literacy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, healthcare communication, and civic inclusion in tribal communities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Awareness of the government. schemes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and important speeches<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Scope &amp; Languages:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In its Beta launch, Adi Vaani supports Santali (Odisha), Bhili (Madhya Pradesh), Mundari (Jharkhand), Gondi (Chhattisgarh)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Methodology &amp; Features of Adi Vani<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI Language Models: Refined deployment of models such as <\/span><b>No Language Left Behind<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NLLB) and <\/span><b>IndicTrans2 f<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or low-resource tribal languages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Community Participation: TRIs, experts, and communities are involved in data collection, validation, and iterative development.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Functional Toolkit of Adi Vani<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Text-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text, Speech-to-Speech translations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Optical Character Recognition<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (OCR) for digitizing manuscripts and primers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bilingual dictionaries and curated repositories.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subtitles for Prime Minister\u2019s speeches, health advisories (e.g., Sickle Cell Disease awareness), and information on government schemes and initiatives in tribal languages.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2162278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PIB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adi Vaani is an AI-based translation tool that serves as the foundation for a future large language model dedicated to tribal languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":61561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2422,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-61399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-adi-vaani","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}