The digital divide between Indian languages will be a thing of past soon as the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad, is all set to launch a
machine translation system which enables the users to convert the content from one language to another.
To begin with, the IIIT is planning to launch a machine
translation system for four pairs of Indian languages for internet users on March 30. Under the project named Sampark the system will enable users to convert the available content from Hindi to Punjabi, Punjabi to Hindi, Urdu to Hindi, and Telugu to Tamil.
"In fact, we are working on 18 pairs of languages. Four more pairs will be added in another 3-4 months and the entire set will be ready in about a year or so," Rajeev Sangal, director, IIIT told TOI on Thursday.
There are 122 languages spoken in
India with 234 others described as mother tongues or dialects.
