The government’s sovereign multilingual artificial intelligence engine, BharatGen, is expected to complete its text-based services across all 22 official Indian languages by the end of this month, Union Minister for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
Replying to a question by BJP member Bhubaneswar Kalita, the minister said the development of the BharatGen AI platform is a dynamic and evolving process, with scope to include more languages and dialects in future phases.
“We have already completed 15 languages. We will be completing 22 official languages in this month itself. So all the 22 will have text completed by this month and 15 will also have the speech and the vision module,” Singh said.
He noted that while text capabilities will be available in all official languages shortly, speech and vision modules — including voice and image-based processing — have already been developed for 15 languages.
Launched in October 2024, BharatGen is a flagship government initiative aimed at building a sovereign AI ecosystem tailored to Indian linguistic diversity. The platform is designed to support services such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) across Indian languages, enabling wider digital access and inclusion.
Officials say the project seeks to strengthen India’s indigenous AI capacity and reduce dependence on foreign language models by building scalable tools suited to local linguistic and governance needs.
