Google I/O Regional Connect: Tech giant open-sources Indian speech data, location info

Alphabet-owned tech giant Google has open-sourced research models and datasets to help developers build solutions with India-focused speech data and location information, Manish Gupta, head of Google Research India told ET.

Through its collaboration with Google as part of Project Vaani, Bengaluru’s research university Indian Institute of Science is now open sourcing the first set of speech data comprising over 4,000 hours across 38 languages.