AI4BHARAT
AI4Bharat is a Research Lab at IIT Madras which works on developing open-source datasets, tools, models and applications for Indian languages.
Bring parity with respect to English in AI technologies for Indian languages with open-source contributions in datasets, models, and applications and by enabling an innovation ecosystem
Our Impact Axes
Data
Curate and create the largest public datasets and benchmarks across various tasks and the 22 scheduled languages of India.
AI Models
Build state-of-the-art, open, foundational AI models across tasks and 22 regional Indian languages.
Applications
Design and deploy with partners reference applications to demonstrate potential of open AI models.
Ecosystem
Enable researchers, startups, and govt. to innovate on Indian language AI tech with educational material and workshops.
Areas
Translation
Open source datasets (Samanantar and BPCC) and models (IndicTrans and IndicTrans2) for neural machine translation between English and 22 indic languages.
Transliteration
Open-source datasets and benchmarks (Aksharantar), models (IndicXlit), and applications for transliteration between Roman and scripts for 20+ Indic languages.
Speech Recognition
Open-source models (IndicWav2Vec) for speech recognition in 9 Indian languages.
Language Understanding
Open-source language models (IndicBERT), benchmarks (IndicGLUE), and entity recognizers (IndicNER) for 10 Indian languages.
Language Generation
Open-source language generation model (IndicBART) and benchmarks (IndicNLG Suite) for 10 Indian languages.
Sign Language
Open-source datasets (INCLUDE, SignCorpus) and models (OpenHands) for sign recognition for various 10 sign languages from around the world.
Text-to-Speech
Open-source text-to-speech models for 13 Indian languages with support for female and male speakers.
Applications
Shoonya
Open source workbench for AI-assisted language data curation work on Indian languages with focus on different annotation flows on Text, Speech, Images, Conversations data types.
Chitralekha
Open-source tool for AI-assisted video subtitling and translating with a focus on educational and media content.
Anuvaad
Open-sourced tool for document-level translation with NMT and transliteration support.
Our Sponsors
Nandan Nilekani
As the primary sponsor, Nandan Nilekani has generously contributed to the formation of the “Nilekani center at AI4Bharat” with a focus on open-source language tech as a public good.
Our Team
Anoop Kunchukuttan
Researcher at Microsoft
Mitesh Khapra
Associate Professor at CSE Department, IIT Madras
Pratyush Kumar
Researcher at Microsoft Research and Adjunct Faculty at IIT Madras
Vivek Raghavan
Chief AI Evangelist, EkStep and Mentor, AI4Bharat
We must be second to none in the application of advanced technologies to the real problems of man and society.
– Vikram Sarabhai
Microsoft’s Research Lab and India Development Center (IDC) have supported us with unrestricted research grants and also by allocating time from researchers to contribute towards open-source technologies.