Is AI available in Indian languages?

Yes, and it is improving quickly, though Indian languages still have less training data than English.

Key initiatives:

• Bhashini: a government platform under the National Language Translation Mission. It offers translation, speech-to-text and text-to-speech across 22 scheduled languages, and is used in government apps and services.
• AI4Bharat at IIT Madras: open datasets and models for Indian languages.
• Sarvam AI and other startups building Indian-language models, supported under the IndiaAI Mission.
• Major global chatbots also now support Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and other languages.

Uses:

• Farmers getting advice by voice in their own language (see AI for farmers)
• Translating court judgments and government notices
• Voice-based banking and UPI help
• Education content in regional languages

Challenges remain: dialects, code-mixing (like Hinglish) and fewer written resources for some languages.