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Bodhan AI Releases Four Multilingual Digital Public Goods

8 September 20261 min read
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYBodhan AI ReleasesFour MultilingualDigital Public Goods8 September 2026safalsetu.com

Why in the news

The Centre of Excellence in AI for Education at IIT Madras, called Bodhan AI, released four language models for open public use as Digital Public Goods.

Key facts

  • Models: speech recognition, text-to-speech (TTS), machine translation and OCR.
  • They are released as Digital Public Goods.
  • They will feed into the Bharat Education AI (EduAI) Stack, which includes a Student Tutor Bot and a Teacher Assistant Bot.

Language coverage

ModelLanguages supported
Speech recognition27
Text-to-speech23
OCR23
Machine translation22

Exam angle

  • Launched by: Bodhan AI, IIT Madras.
  • Larger framework: Bharat Education AI (EduAI) Stack.
  • Most widely covered model: speech recognition with 27 languages.

Test yourself

1. Which institution houses Bodhan AI, the Centre of Excellence in AI for Education?

Bodhan AI is at IIT Madras.

2. How many languages does the speech recognition model from Bodhan AI support?

Speech recognition supports 27 languages.

3. The Bodhan AI models will contribute to which stack?

They feed the Bharat Education AI (EduAI) Stack.