# Hugging Face — HuggingFace, IISc partner to supercharge model building on India's diverse languages

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-02-27T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/iisc-huggingface-collab
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1739-huggingface-iisc-partner-to-supercharge-model-building-on-india-s-diverse

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.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/iisc-huggingface-collab:

> The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and ARTPARK partner with Hugging Face to enable developers across the globe to access Vaani, India's most diverse open-source, multi-modal, multi-lingual dataset.

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