Imagine a construction worker from Odisha going to Bangalore to find work. Or a citizen from interior Nagaland trying to interact with the state government. Language is a barrier to both these people and it can make livelihoods rather challenging. But current research in AI – from deep neural networks to massive multi-lingual models – are already trying to solve this problem.&nbsp;
Credits:&nbsp;
Narration: Harsha Bhogle
Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz
Producer: Archana Nathan
Research, Interviews and Scripts: Vinay Aravind
Narrative overview: Charu Sharma and Shriram Parthasarathy
Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao and Abhijit Nath.&nbsp;
All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode&nbsp;
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 <li>Dr. Shobha Satyanath, a professor of linguistics at Delhi University&nbsp;</li>
 <li>Kalika Bali, Principal Researcher, Microsoft India&nbsp;</li>
 <li>Dr. Monojit Chowdhury, Principal Data and Applied Scientist with Turing&nbsp;</li>
 <li>Dr. Vivek Seshadri, a researcher at Microsoft India.&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
Links to clips used in the episode and citations:&nbsp;
<ul>
 <li><a href="https://www.livemint.com/market/stock-market-news/why-english-only-markets-breed-inequity-11629994292128.html" target="_blank">The Language Barrier Plaguing India's Stock Market | Mint (livemint.com)&nbsp;</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrEkYscgbqE" target="_blank">Jawaharlal Nehru’s Tryst with Destiny speech</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/7780-indian-languages-surveyed-and-documented-by-plsi-next-aim-to-document-6000-world-languages-4781113/" target="_blank">780 Indian languages surveyed and documented by PLSI, next aim to document 6000 world languages | India News The Indian Express&nbsp;</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/statement9.htm" target="_blank">List of the 122 census recognised languages of India, including Scheduled and Non-Scheduled Languages</a>&nbsp;</li>
 <li><a href="https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/interview-g-n-devy-all-our-languages-are-losing-linguistic-prowess/article38467813.ece" target="_blank">Prof. G.N. Devy: 'All our languages are losing linguistic prowess' - Frontline (thehindu.com)</a>&nbsp;</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/deep-learning-neural-networks-explained-in-plain-english/" target="_blank">Deep Learning Neural Networks Explained in Plain English (freecodecamp.org)</a>&nbsp;</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7nQL1ViotI" target="_blank">Artificial Intelligence wrote this entire video. Are you scared yet, human?</a>&nbsp;</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-karya/" target="_blank">Project Karya - Microsoft Research</a>&nbsp;</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/ellora/" target="_blank">ELLORA: Enabling Low Resource Languages - Microsoft Research&nbsp;</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/microsoft-turing-universal-language-representation-model-t-ulrv5-tops-xtreme-leaderboard-and-trains-100x-faster/" target="_blank">Microsoft Turing Universal Language Representation model, T-ULRv5, tops XTREME leaderboard and trains 100x faster - Microsoft Research</a>&nbsp;</li>
 <li><a href="http://cgnetswara.org/" target="_blank">CGNet Swara’s website</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/cognitive-services/">Cognitive Services—APIs for AI Solutions | Microsoft Azure</a></li>
</ul>

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