[jnmandal]

Looks really cool, exciting to see. I have two questions around this:

1. Given that you are concerned with providing access a class of folks that are traditionally ignored by technologists, do you plan to make these models usable for offline purposes? For example an illiterate person I know from Uttarkhand: his home village is not connected to road. Interestingly he does speak Hindi, but his native language I believe is something more obscure. To get home, he walks five hours from the terminus of a road. Connectivity is obviously both limited and intermittent. A usable device might want the voice interface embedded on it. Any plans for this?

2. I have minimal understanding of this but as someone who has learned Hindi/Urdu as a foreign language but in the US, I am often in mixed conversation w/ both Indians and Pakistanis. There never seems to be any issues with communication. I have heard that certain terms (like for example "khub suraat", "shukria", "kitaab") are more Urdu than Hindi. I also studied Arabic, Farsi, and Swahili so I am familiar with these as loanwords Arabic and/or Persian, but in practice I hear Hindi speakers using these terms often. Is the primary value add here political? Is it an accent thing? Thanks in advance for any explanation. This is still very much a mystery to me.

[muhammadbsabir]

To increase access we’re also exploring telco hotlines. Carrier penetration is much higher than internet, so this could let people use AI through a simple phone call. Some users already pay for similar services like weather updates (for farmers) via SIM balance. But to scale it will likely require government or telco partnerships.

[jnmandal]

Telco integration sounds amazing. Wishing yall success

[hammadmlk]

1. Offline models: Yes that is on the roadmap. There is a big demand for them especially in interactive educational use-cases.

2. Urdu and Modern Hindi can be cross understood in spoken form. The authentic Hindi is much different though and I can't understand the press releases that are done in super authentic Hindi. The writing systems in Urdu and Hindi is completely different too, so even if there is a great TTS system in Hindi, I cant use it. Accent are very different too.

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