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National start-up council meet: Translation system, maps on agenda

The proposal is to allow apps with over 20 million users to be able to use this system for their user base

Piyush Goyal
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Piyush Goyal

Shreya NandiNeha Alawadhi New Delhi
Top officials from the start-up ecosystem and investors discussed ideas, including one on developing a volunteer-led, open-source system to enable content and apps to be made available in 13 Indian languages, during a meeting with the government on Monday.

The proposal is to allow apps with over 20 million users to be able to use this system for their user base. This was discussed at the second meeting of the National Startup Advisory Council, chaired by commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Monday.

“iSPIRT’s Sharad Sharma presented an Indic language AI/ML software that can translate one Indian language to another with

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