▪️In a significant step towards strengthening language technology for low-resource Indian languages, the Digital India BHASHINI Division (#DIBD), under Digital India Corporation (DIC), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, has developed Text-to-Speech (TTS) models for #Sourashtra, a minority Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Sourashtra community in Tamil Nadu. ▪️The initiative aims to expand the availability of speech technology for languages that have limited digital resources and support their use in digital applications, language learning, accessibility solutions, documentation and research. ▪️The newly developed models use the #VITS (Variational Inference with adversarial learning for end-to-end Text-to-Speech) architecture and are capable of generating Sourashtra speech directly from text. ▪️The models include male and female voices, with each voice available for text written in both Tamil script and Sourashtra script. This enables users to work with Sourashtra in the scripts used for the language. Want to know more? Read here: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.… @GoI_MeitY