Priyank Kharge
Information technology minister Priyank Kharge said the state would explore integrating Bhashini with its more than 700 citizen services under Praja Seva and e-governance initiatives. Bhashini supports voice capabilities in 22 Indian languages and text services in 36 languages, according to govt data. It hosts more than 350 AI models and has processed over four billion language inferences. He said deeptech and AI innovations could access grants of up to Rs 1 crore.
At the inauguration of a Bhashini workshop organised by the department of e-governance at Vidhana Soudha Thursday, he said, “Karnataka is one state, but it is many worlds,” pointing to the state’s linguistic and cultural diversity. “If technology is to truly make governance more accessible, it must speak to citizens in a language they understand,” he said. Kharge said the technology could particularly help citizens, who find text-heavy digital interfaces difficult to navigate, by enabling voice-led access to govt services. He also sought greater participation from Karnataka’s startup ecosystem, saying the govt could become the “first customer” for innovative public-sector solutions under its Govt First Policy.
Bengaluru : Karnataka govt plans to leverage the Centre’s Bhashini artificial intelligence (AI) platform to make digital governance and citizen services more accessible to people in their preferred languages, including through voice-based interfaces. Bhashini, developed under the National Language Translation Mission and implemented by Digital India Bhashini Division under the ministry of electronics and information technology, is designed to bridge language, literacy and digital barriers. The platform provides AI-based services, including automatic speech recognition, machine translation, text-to-speech, transliteration and optical character recognition. Its technologies are already being explored for public-facing applications, including railway services, legal assistance and agriculture. Kharge invited the Bhashini team to showcase its technology at Bengaluru Tech Summit and explore wider applications across govt-to-citizen services.
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