We are aiming for this iconic moment to fulfil our goal- to release 10,000 hours of voice data for our AI researchers."Īfter the successful completion of the project, a new era will be opened for our researchers and not to mention- the Bangla-speaking community as well. 52 stands for language and 71 stands for freedom. 52 and 71- two significant numbers in our history. They have partnered with 10 universities in Bangladesh to reach their goal.Īsif Shahriyar Sushmit, one of the masterminds behind this project, said "2023 is the 71st anniversary of 1952's language movement. Their goal is much higher at 10,000 hours. They have already managed to accumulate a total of around 2,000 hours of voice data from more than 23,000 voluntary voice donors. Mozilla Commonvoice is the platform where they are hosting the campaign. In this campaign, Bangla-speaking people from all over the world donated their voice data to enrich the voice dataset of Bengali.AI. For this, they run a campaign on social media named "Bok Bok Campaign." This spell-checker application is on its way to being launched for public use.Ĭurrent project: Voice recognition in BanglaĪt the beginning of this year, they started an even larger project, "Bangla Speech Recognition." The purpose is to make machines understand the Bangla language. This works like Grammarly (an American cloud-based typing assistant that reviews spelling, grammar, punctuation, clarity, etc and mistakes in English language text) but in Bangla. The next year, a team of 40 students from different universities, voluntary researchers from both academia and industry and voluntary annotators launched a GPU-based algorithm which can detect typing mistakes in Bangla texts even to a high degree. The same year, they started another project which takes a graphemic approach to Bangla handwritten OCR.
If you are familiar with Murad Takla texts (transliterated Bangla texts), well, in 2020 they worked on a project where the transliterated texts could be transcribed. They were able to pull off a total of 7.5 million hours of research work by the data scientists from companies like Google, Nvidia, H2O.AI, etc.
The following year, the organisation collaborated with Google once again and launched another competition on Bangla Graphemes (linguistic segments of word formation).
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