BhashaDaan : Breaking Language Barrier Across India

Knowledge is power in our world where Sharing and gaining Knowledge freely can change lives. Bhasa Daan is a platform that brings collectively novices and educators to unfold expertise by spreading knowledge. Bhasha Daan is an initiative that was launched by Prime Minister of India Narendra Damodar das Modi at the inauguration of the Digital India Week in 2022 at Gandhinagar, Gujarat. 

Bhasadaan was founded on the belief that Language should not become a universal communication barrier. The name Bhasha Daan itself is derived from the words "Bhasa," which means language or knowledge, and "Daan," means giving something as Donation.  

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Bhasha Daan  is defined as One platform, multiple crowdsourcing initiatives for Indian languages. The platform invites to contribute data to develop Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech, Machine Translation, and Optical Character Recognition for Indian languages. Your contribution will help in creating an open repository of speech data, parallel translations, and labeled images. 
 

How does it work 

The project is available on this website: https://www.bhashi and it is aimed to build and develop an ecosystem where different users join and can share educational materials, including articles, tutorials, videos, and more. 

It works as a collaborative platform that provides the tools and community support to help you achieve your goals. Whether you're a professional seeking to upskill, or an student looking for study materials. 

Its helps to build open repository of data to digitally enrich his/her own language. 

The aim of this initiative is to create large open datasets for different Indian languages, which can be after used to train AI models for use by different users to create services or products and to break the barrier between various Indian tongue. 

Categories of Bhasha Daan 

• Suno India: Enrich your language by typing the audio that you hear 

• Bolo India: Enrich your language by donating your voice 

• Likho India: Enrich your language by translating text 

• Dekho India:  Enrich your language by typing the text you see 

Objectives 

STRATEGY for Long-term development of sustainable Indian language technology, solutions, and ecosystem technology  

Indian language technology ADOPTION solutions for easier access to the internet.  

GROWTH of Indian language content & Technology over the Internet  

Enable CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH in IL technologies evolutionary and revolutionary technologies.  

facilitate and Promote INDIGENOUS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) generation  

ENABLE AND INCENTIVIZE for the Encouragement of Transfer of Technologies (ToT)  

Enable collaborations and partnership programs with NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES  

Catalyzing collaborative RESEARCH, COMMERCIALIZATION AWARENESS, AND CAPACITY BUILDING  

 To adopt and implement the DATA POLICY for the Mission. 
 

What is Bhashini? 

The term Bhashini is defined as a mission to translate local language and that mainly aims to break the barrier between various Indian languages by using different available technologies.  

This government platform aims to make AI and NLP resources available in the public domain to be used by -- Indian MSMEs, startups, and individual innovators.  

It helps the developers to offer all Indians easy access to the internet and digital services in their native languages. 
 

Bhashini Mission: 

Concept: 

• The term Bhashini is defined as a small team at the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), that is currently building a WhatsApp-based chatbot that relies on information generated by ChatGPT to return appropriate responses to queries. 

• And because in the rural areas, people are farmers and they may not always want to type out their queries, questions can be asked on the chatbot through voice notes. 

•  The official said that to build such a language model, it needs a large dataset of the various local languages spoken in India on which the model can be trained. 

• This initiative called Bhasha Daan comes into the picture and the main objective of this project is to crowdsource voice datasets in multiple Indian languages. 

• On the project’s website, people can contribute in three key ways:  
  
  1. by recording their voice samples in multiple Indian languages by reading out a piece of text, 

           2. typing out a sentence being played,  

           3.  translating text in one language into another. 

 

What is UPI 123 Pay? 

• The UPI 123 pay is the instant payment system that will allow users to make UPI transactions without an internet connection.  

• The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) launched the UPI 123 pay payment System. 

• Transactions through UPI 123Pay can be done through voice response-based payment solutions, missed calls, sound-based technology, and payment apps. 
   

Significance 

      1. Empowering communication and bringing the digital divide for a truly inclusive India. 

      2. Don’t let language hold you back, Ai tools empower you to speak freely and access everything in your preferred language   

      3. Bhasini aims to enable all Indians easy access to the internet and digital services in their language and increase the content in the Indian language. 

 

Vision & Mission 

Bhashini’s Unified Vision 

Utilize herbal language technologies to facilitate various communities of participants, accomplice organizations, and residents to triumph over language barriers, for that reason making certain digital inclusion and empowerment in a self-reliant India. 

Bhashini At Work 

Data Preparation

Collect Data (In-House and Crowdsourced)

Clean and Label data

Enhanced Data (Augmentation)

Split Data (Training, Validation, Testing)

Document Metadata

 

Model Training

Data Preprocessing

Model Training

Hyperparameter Tuning

Model Evaluation and Validation

Training Monitoring and Logging

Model Packaging for Deployment

 

API Development

Design API Endpoints

Implement Business Logic

Integrate with Database

Ensure Security

Testing And Validation

Documentation

 

Deployment

API integration for Exploration

Reference Application Development

Mobile Application Deployment

Scalability

Monitoring and Maintenance

 

Feedback Collection

Functionality

Performance

Test Edge Cases

Find Gaps

 

Model Finetuning

Collect Domain – Specific Data

Preprocess Data

Tune Parameters

Retrain Model

Capture Learning for Platform Services

Redeploy Models

 

Add AI Models to Improve Platforms

Develop Pre-Processor Models

Develop Post-Processor Model

Develop Application

Support Main Models (ASR,TTS, Translation)