Page 2 - India Languages

Tech giant Google announces second edition of Indian languages programme

The Indian Languages Programme 1.0 sought to modernise the online presence of Indian language news publishers and enhance user experiences across web, app, and video formats

Soket AI labs launch Pragna-1B AI model in collaboration with Google Cloud

The model will provide AI services in Indian vernacular languages including Hindi, English, Bengali, and Gujarati

Use of Indian languages key for increasing internet access in India: Report

It shows 57% prefer accessing internet in Indian languages

Building India's own ChatGPT faces challenge of data on languages

Efforts to build large language models, the backbone of AI chatbots, based on the country's needs are gathering pace

Bhashini: Everything you need to know about AI language translation tool

Bhashini is an AI-driven language translation tool that marks a transformative step in digital inclusivity for Indian languages

NEP will give due respect, credit to every Indian language: PM Modi

The new National Education Policy (NEP) will give due respect and credit to every language in the country and those who try to politicise language for their selfish interests will have to shut their shops, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday. Delivering the inaugural address at the "Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Samagam" on the third anniversary of the launch of the NEP, Modi said the biggest injustice to students is judging them on the basis of their language, instead of their capabilities. "The National Educational Policy will give due respect and credit to every language in the country.... Those who try to politicise language for their selfish interests will now have to shut their shops," the prime minister said. "Education in the mother tongue is initiating a new form of justice for students in India. It is also a very significant step towards social justice," he added. Taking note of the multitude of languages in the world and their importance, the prime minister underlined

Cong slams Shah over 'BJP stands for promotion of all languages' remark

The Congress on Friday hit out at Home Minister Amit Shah's reported remarks that the BJP stands for promotion of all languages, alleging that the Modi government had spent Rs 640 crore to promote Sanskrit while just Rs 3 crore on promotion of Kannada. Shah, in an interview to The Hindu, said the BJP stands for the promotion of all Indian languages and the accusation that it promotes Hindi at the cost of regional languages is politically motivated. Reacting to the remarks, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said in a tweet, "The HM has claimed in an interview that the BJP stands for 'promotion' of all languagesIs that why the Modi Govt has spent Rs 640 cr to promote Sanskrit and JUST Rs 3 cr to support promotion of Kannada, one of the six classical languages of the country?" Is that why the man who insulted the great Kuvempu, who penned the state anthem, was made Chairman of the textbook revision committee by "the 40% Commission Sarkara" in Karnataka,

Centre pushes for regional language with CAPF constable exams in 13 of them

In addition to Hindi and English, the question paper will be set in Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Odia, Urdu, Punjabi, Manipuri and Konkani

Pledge to use mother tongue more: Amit Shah on Int'l Mother Language Day

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday greeted people on the International Mother Language Day, and said it is an occasion to make a resolution to connect with the mother tongue and make it more prosperous. Shah also said that when a person makes his mother tongue prosperous, then all the languages of the country become prosperous and the country will also be prosperous. "This is the day to take resolution to connect with our mother tongue and make it more prosperous... We should take a pledge to make maximum use of our mother tongue," he said. The home minister said when a child reads, speaks and thinks in his mother tongue, it enhances his potential to think, reason, analyse and research. Keeping this in mind, the government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emphasised on education in mother tongue through the New Education Policy, he said, adding "this will become the basis of India's bright future".

Twitter to bring Edit Tweet feature finally: Here's all you need to know

Twitter will be paying close attention to how the feature can impact the way people read, write, and engage with tweets

BHARAT: An Indian font that integrates elements from 12 languages

India's top typographers at Rediffusion Design Studios have been working hard for the past six months to create a font that would be intrinsically and eternally Indian

Google India adds 5 new languages to its training network for scribes

Tech giant Google on Tuesday expanded its News Initiative Training Network to include five new languages: Punjabi, Assamese, Gujarati, Odia and Malayalam

Language translation engine Devnagri raises $600,000 in seed round

The platform combines Neural Machine Translation with ML to make the internet accessible to 90% of Indians and solve the problem of "lack of content in Indian languages"

How IBM researchers enabled AI platform Watson to understand native Hindi

With this, Watson Discovery can understand documents written in Devanagari and extract their meaning, without having to resort to any translation to English

Hindi added most speakers in 10 yrs: Where do other Indian languages stand?

Marathi with 83 million speakers displaced Telugu (81 million) to become the third most common mother tongue after Hindi and Bengali