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Microsoft has announced some work on this, but I haven't anything in product form yet, maybe in the future?

https://news.microsoft.com/en-in/indian-startup-sarvam-ai-co...

https://fortune.com/asia/2024/01/27/microsoft-ai-india-langu...

https://news.microsoft.com/source/asia/features/microsoft-re...

Microsoft has done a lot of work in Speech and Sarvam is also now going into it. But Sarvam is yet to produce a decent LLM for Hindi and now on top of that, they are venturing into speech, so I am not sure how that will pan out. My guess is Sarvam would be more focused on increasing coverage of text to speech for all Indian languages than to make the model indistinguishable from humans for top 4-5 Indian languages. They have some tie-ups with the government for the same.

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