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Hugging Face partners with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and ARTPARK to improve accessibility and usability of the Vaani dataset, an open-source multi-modal, multi-lingual dataset representing India's linguistic diversity.
The dataset, launched in 2022, targets over 150,000 hours of speech and 15,000 hours of transcribed text from 1 million people across 773 districts.
Phase 1 (80 districts) is open-sourced, and Phase 2 is underway.
The dataset supports various AI tasks including speech recognition, language modeling, and multimodal LLM enhancement.
