Intel & Digital India Bhashini Division bring multilingual capabilities

Intel India and the Digital India Bhashini Division have integrated Bhashini's Vidyalekha into Intel-based AI PCs, enabling real-time translation and transcription across Indian languages

Intel India, in collaboration with the Digital India Bhashini Division under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, today announced the availability of Bhashini’s Vidyalekha on Intel-based AI PCs.

 

This integration enables real-time translation and transcription across multiple Indian languages, which will benefit students, education content creators, schools and academic institutions, said the companies.

 

This development represents an important step in the India AI Mission and reflects Intel and Bhashini’s shared vision of “AI for All” — bringing affordable, inclusive and scalable AI to population-scale use cases. By enabling sovereign AI models to run directly on AI PCs, Intel and Bhashini are decentralising AI beyond the cloud and data centres, placing powerful AI capabilities directly into the hands of end users. These capabilities unlock population-scale opportunities in education and institutional ecosystems.

 

 

Amitabh Nag, CEO, Bhashini, said: “India’s linguistic diversity is a national asset that must shape the future of technology. Access to knowledge cannot depend on language or connectivity. Through our collaboration with Intel on AI PCs, Bhashini is enabling real-time translation and transcription in Indian languages directly on devices, ensuring that technology adapts to every learner. This reflects India’s commitment to building AI that is inclusive by design and rooted in its linguistic diversity.”

 

Bhashini Vidyalekha is a utility designed to work offline on a laptop to help bridge the language divide for college students, especially those who have studied in their native language, by transcribing English lectures and translating them into the student’s language of choice.

 

Gokul Subramaniam, Intel India President, said: “This initiative underscores Intel’s commitment to enabling heterogeneous, scalable and affordable AI compute at the edge and on end-user devices. By optimising Bhashini and AI4Bharat models for Intel Core Ultra processors, we have enabled efficient execution across CPU, GPU and NPU resources, delivering high performance while maintaining power efficiency. This opens possibilities for education content creators and teachers and eliminates the language barriers for students to learn.”

 

At the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, Intel and Bhashini demonstrated automatic speech recognition models along with text-to-speech and translation models, delivering real-time translation and transcription on Intel Core Ultra Series-powered AI PCs.