Voice For Bharat — Insights
India is a country with 500+ Mn internet users who speak 22 official languages. Not surprisingly, this diverse demographic wants and needs access to online products and services in their native language. Voice is fast becoming the new UI for these Bharat users who are now using Voice to search for products, ask for directions, learn English, and get entertainment, in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati and Indian English.
In the first week of December 2020, We concluded the ‘Voice For Bharat’ webinar, the second event in our series of VOICE Talks India. In case you missed the live stream, make sure you tune in to watch the recording of this one-of-its-kind event, where pre-eminent experts from the field of Voice technology, platform creators from Google Assistant, Conversational-AI startup founders, independent developers, digital media brand leaders, and technology localization specialists got together to share their insights on growing adoption of Voice.
More and more regional Indian users are turning to Voice to access information and get things done in the language of their choice. Build for the Next Billion Users in India who are using Voice to shop, learn, entertain and inform themselves.
Here’s who came together to share their insights on localisation so you can begin building Voice Experiences for regional Indian audiences.
- Google India: Google Assistant for the Next Billion Users (NBU)
- Times Internet: Times Internet Manifesto for Voice Adoption
- Slang Labs: Enabling E-commerce via Multilingual Voice Assistants
- ArrowAI: The Power of Celebrity on Voice Platforms
- Priyam Saikia: Independent Voice Developer
- Reverie Language Technologies: Rethinking Common Myths about Bharat Users
- Read Along by Google: Made for India, Adopted by the World
- Agrahyah Technologies: Demystifying Voice for Bharat
Prefer old-school? Check-out what India’s most-read business daily, The Economic Times, has to say about it.
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