According to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who was born in India, the company is trying to make text and voice internet search available in more than 100 Indian languages.
Pichai, who is in India, noted that the pace of technological advancement in the nation has been extraordinary. Google, he added, is assisting startups and small businesses, investing in cybersecurity, promoting education and skill development, and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) in fields such as healthcare and agriculture.
“I’m here to check how our USD 10 billion, 10-year India Digitization Fund (IDF) is progressing and to offer fresh approaches. Our Google for India event is advancing India’s digital future. This includes our efforts to create a single, unified AI model that can handle over 100 Indian languages across speech and text as part of our global initiative to bring the 1,000 most-spoken languages online and enable people to access knowledge and information in their native tongue, he wrote in a blog. Google announced intentions to invest USD 10 billion in India over the next five to seven years in July 2020 in an effort to hasten the uptake of digital services in the important international market. Along with IIT Madras, “We’re also financing a new, multidisciplinary centre for responsible AI,” Pichai added. This is part of Google’s effort to take advantage of the AI market opportunity globally while juggling the need to be innovative, ambitious, and responsible in its approach. Over a billion people in India and more people worldwide may benefit from AI discoveries, he added. “I’m enthusiastic to see the ways India will contribute to these breakthroughs,” he said. Pichai expressed his astonishment at the ways in which individuals are already utilising technology to improve their communities. “One of the local tech entrepreneurs I met today pioneered the field by providing a radiation-free and non-invasive technology for breast cancer screening; another created a chatbot that aids in stress management. During a discussion at Women Will, I was pleased to hear their tales and to provide my opinions on how technology may increase opportunities. Pichai spoke with Ashwini Vaishnaw, the minister of information technology and telecoms, before his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “The development we’re seeing across India has advanced thanks to Prime Minister Modi’s Digital India agenda, and I’m enthusiastic for India to share its experience with the globe as it takes over the G20 presidency in 2023,” he said. “India has experienced incredible technological development, and there are still a lot of opportunities available. I’m happy I got to see it up close, and I already look forward to going again. Google is making search results pages multilingual in India, according to Sanjay Gupta, Country Head and Vice President, India, by utilising its cutting-edge ML (Machine Learning)-based translation models and a cross-language search engine. In the long run, we’ve partnered with the Indian Institute of Science on ‘Project Vaani,’ a project that intends to gather and transcribe open source voice data from all 773 districts in India and make it accessible through the Bhashini project,’ he said.
