HuggingFace, IISc partner to supercharge model building on India's diverse languages

Hugging Face and IISc/ARTPARK partner to enable access to Vaani, India's diverse open-source, multi-modal dataset. Vaani targets 54 languages, 150k hours of speech and 15k hours of transcribed data from about 1 million people across 773 districts, with Phase 1 already open-sourced and Phase 2 expanding reach. This dataset supports ASR, TTS, language identification, and speaker verification, empowering robust Indic-language models and code-switching applications.

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FEB 27, 2025 · 19:10

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