Nearly 665 million Indians or 45 per cent of the rural population did not have access to the internet as of 2023.
Difficulty in understanding internet procedures, insufficient awareness of its benefits, and a lack of interest have emerged as the top reasons for a gap in internet penetration in rural India, according to a joint report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and Kantar. The proficiency of English in rural India is very low. While we have content in Hindi, the internet is English-heavy.
Open-source foundational models can help with automatic voice-to-text translation, document translation, and knowledge dissemination. Amidst India’s mosaic of languages and dialects, the quest for linguistic inclusivity stands as a profound challenge. This is where technology,.
Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], March 15 (ANI/NewsVoir): Ujjivan Small Finance Bank is proud to announce that its Hello Ujjivan app has won the 13th Aegis Graham Bell Awards (AGBA) in the "Innovation in Consumer Tech" category. The thirteenth edition of the prize is an initiative of Aegis School of Data Science, backed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology; NITI Aayog and Skill India to foster an innovative culture in India. Hello Ujjivan, is the first mobile banking app in India that enables speech, visual, and vernacular features to give bank's MicroBanking and Rural customers access to banking financial services who have limited reading and writing abilities. The app has intuitive AI and machine learning capabilities, to enable customers transact conveniently and safely in the language of their choice. Ittira Davis, MD and CEO of Ujjivan SFB, said on the victory "This win is an outcome of our efforts in providing innovative yet simple solutions
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 9 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Ujjivan Small Finance Bank launched Hello Ujjivan, India's first mobile banking application with 3 V's - voice, visual, vernacular-enabled features - to provide banking access to individuals who have limited reading and writing skills. The app is designed to instil banking habits in MicroBanking and Rural customers who are digitally challenged. Hello Ujjivan, co-created with Navana.AI, is accessible by voice in eight regional languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Oriya, and Assamese. Customers can speak to the app in their native language to perform banking transactions and access services such as paying loan EMIs, opening FD and RD accounts, transferring funds, checking account balance, and updating passbooks, among others. The app's intuitive AI and machine learning capabilities enable it to comprehend customers' unstructured banking requests and provide the desired r