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The IndicVoices authors built IndicASR, which they describe as the first speech recognition model to support all 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“we build IndicASR, the first ASR model to support all the 22 languages listed in the 8th schedule of the Constitution of India”
IndicVoices: Towards building an Inclusive Multilingual Speech Dataset for Indian Languages, Tahir Javed et al., arXiv preprint (AI4Bharat, IIT Madras), 2024, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The 22 languages are the ones listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India, which includes Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Tamil and Telugu.
- What it does not show
- A model that supports a language is not the same as a model that is accurate in it. The abstract makes no accuracy claim.