India’s cultural diversity can be gauged by the fact that we transact in 22 official languages and converse in thousands of dialects. Advanced AI/ML capabilities applied to NLP can spur seamless integration of the social and business ecosystem in India by mending language barriers. With over 700 million internet subscribers, there is a rapidly growing demand for understanding India’s vernacular languages for myriad functions in areas such as multilingual customer service, search applications in native language and virtual agents in vernacular languages.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has the capability to enable wider reach of information aided by Internet explosion across the country. Initiatives like the National Language Translation Mission by Govt of India are aiming to create a ‘voice-based internet’ and have Indian Language technology systems & products deployed in the field with the help of start-ups. This will result in development of the next generation 'conversational' apps & websites.