IndicConformer ASR is a speech-to-text model that listens to spoken audio and writes out what was said as text. It is built for India and handles all 22 official Indian languages in a single multilingual model. It is open source and free to run yourself, and is not a chatbot or text generator.
Works in these languages, in both native script and Roman typing.
An honest look at what it does well and where it struggles.
Who builds and maintains IndicConformer ASR.
AI4Bharat is an open-source research lab at IIT Madras dedicated to advancing AI for Indian languages. Its freely released datasets, benchmarks, and models — like Airavata and the IndicTrans translation series — are widely used across research and industry.
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