BHASHINI and IISc Bangaluru : Text-to-Speech Model for Sourashtra Language

India, Oct. 16 -- The Government of India has issued a release:

In a significant step towards strengthening language technology for low-resource Indian languages, the Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD), under Digital India Corporation (DIC), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, has developed Text-to-Speech (TTS) models for Sourashtra, a minority Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Sourashtra community in Tamil Nadu.

The initiative aims to expand the availability of speech technology for languages that have limited digital resources and support their use in digital applications, language learning, accessibility solutions, documen...