Microsoft’s Post

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India has 22 official languages and Marathi is actually a language that is spoken by millions and millions of people. But unfortunately, many Indian languages are under-resourced. We cannot let language be the thing that does not allow you to use technology. AI is a transformative technology. People deserve to have access to these amazing technologies in their language. Karya exists to accelerate social mobility in rural India by building AI-based solutions to help our communities. Our workers record sentences in their mother tongue on their smartphones, and for the simple task, we pay them nearly 20 times the Indian minimum wage. And that leads to a data set so they keep on making royalties every single time those data sets are resold. I think it is imperative that if we are changing someone���s income structure in this way, that we also need to help them understand financial literacy. I am here today to teach everyone about financial literacy. We are going to do this through the Karya app. ���Both Ramesh and Kalpesh were daily wage workers.��� I never heard my own voice. Never! Because of the Karya app, I got to hear my own voice, and we got to learn about banking: How to apply for a loan, how to save money, how to create fixed deposits for our children. We learned so much. Now we don't need anyone to go to the ATM on our behalf and withdraw the money. It is not like that. Now we can do it on our own. Karya���s platform is hosted on Azure. We use Azure Cognitive Services for our own AI-based validation work, and we are also using Azure OpenAI. I am really happy and I am really proud that someone out there is going to listen to my voice, and someone is going to learn because I spoke in Marathi. I am proud of that. If you can solve it for India, you can solve it for the world.