SARTHI App

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 to 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 it is also accessible via respective Android and iOS apps.

Q1: What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

It is an emerging technology that enables computers and machines to simulate human intelligence and problem-solving capabilities. It involves the development of algorithms and models that enable computers to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making.

Source: ONDC launches Saarthi reference app for businesses to create multilingual buyer apps