# HuggingFace, IISc partner to supercharge model building on India's diverse languages

DevFeed: [HuggingFace, IISc partner to supercharge model building on India's diverse languages](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/huggingface-iisc-partner-to-supercharge-model-building-on-india-s-diverse-languages-7273.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/iisc-huggingface-collab>)

Author: Prasanta Kumar Ghosh; Nihar Desai; Sanka; Sujith Pulikodan

Published: 2025-02-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [hugging face](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hugging-face.md>), [AI Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-development.md>), [AI Chat](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-chat.md>), [Language models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/language-models.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

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## AI overview

Hugging Face and IISc/ARTPARK are partnering to improve access to and usability of Project Vaani, an open-source multimodal dataset representing India's linguistic diversity. The dataset includes speech and transcribed text from languages and dialects across the country's districts, supporting speech recognition, language modeling, segmentation, and other AI applications.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.