BHASHINI showcases multilingual AI for theses at the 29th ETD symposium at IIT Delhi

24 October 2026

The Digital India BHASHINI Division under the Digital India Corporation of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology took part in the 29th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, held at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi from 23 to 25 October 2026. Ms. Baishali Chakraborty conducted a session titled 'Workshop on AI BHASHINI: Bridging Divides and Increasing Productivity'. A live demonstration of Shrutlekh showed real-time speech transcription with simultaneous translation. The release states that BHASHINI has recorded over 10 billion cumulative AI inferences and supports 36 Indian languages for text, 23 Indian languages for voice and 35 international languages. Its website translation plugin enables multilingual access across more than 800 government websites. BHASHINI Pragati, a document translation workbench developed for the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, supports documents of 100 to 500 pages.