India-Nepal Deepen Multilingual AI Cooperation Through BHASHINI SANGAM Workshop

New Delhi, Sep 2 (KNN) The Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD), under the Digital India Corporation (DIC), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), in collaboration with the Embassy of India in Kathmandu and Kathmandu University, organised the BHASHINI SANGAM: International Engagement Workshop (Nepal) in Kathmandu.

The workshop brought together stakeholders from government, academia, technology, research and innovation to explore multilingual and voice-first Artificial Intelligence (AI) for improving access to digital services and information in preferred languages.

The engagement builds on the Memorandum of Understanding between DIBD and Kathmandu University on language technology and digital public infrastructure. 

Discussions focused on co-creating technology, datasets and locally relevant applications for linguistic communities in India and Nepal.

The BHASHINI team demonstrated multilingual AI capabilities, including speech recognition, real-time translation, voice-enabled interaction and document processing.

A dedicated BhashaDaan session also highlighted the role of community participation and language data in developing representative AI, with contributions across speech, text and image.

The workshop further explored applications in Nepali and other languages, with participants discussing collaboration in language datasets, research and practical Language AI solutions.

(KNN Bureau)