Digital India BHASHINI Division Showcases Multilingual AI Solutions for Accessible Research at ETD-2026, IIT Delhi

The Digital India BHASHINI Division (DIBD) showcased its multilingual artificial intelligence solutions at the 29th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD-2026) held at IIT Delhi. BHASHINI explored collaborations with higher education institutions and research repositories—such as Shodhganga—to expand access to theses, dissertations, and scholarly content across Indian languages. The session demonstrated tools like Shrutlekh for real-time speech transcription and translation, BHASHINI Pragati for document translation, OCR, SHABD UDYAN for terminology management, BhashaDaan, and Granthika. BHASHINI currently supports 36 Indian languages for text, 23 for voice, and 35 international languages, having recorded over 10 billion cumulative AI inferences.