Episode 02 - (Not so) Lost in Translation

Paradigm Shift

May 12, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 2

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Episode description

Imagine a construction worker from Odisha going to Bangalore to find work. Or a citizen from interior Nagaland trying to interact with the state government. Language is a barrier to both these people and it can make livelihoods rather challenging. But current research in AI – from deep neural networks to massive multi-lingual models – are already trying to solve this problem.

Credits:
Narration: Harsha Bhogle
Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz
Producer: Archana Nathan
Research, Interviews and Scripts: Vinay Aravind
Narrative overview: Charu Sharma and Shriram Parthasarathy
Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao and Abhijit Nath.

All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode

Dr. Shobha Satyanath, a professor of linguistics at Delhi University
Kalika Bali, Principal Researcher, Microsoft India
Dr. Monojit Chowdhury, Principal Data and Applied Scientist with Turing
Dr. Vivek Seshadri, a researcher at Microsoft India.

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