Samsung's Bengaluru R&D centre develops Hindi model for Galaxy AI

Samsung’s Bengaluru R&D centre has improved technology for languages including Thai, Vietnamese, and Indonesian and developed Hindi AI model for Galaxy AI.

The largest Samsung facility outside of Korea, the R&D Institute in Bengaluru, worked with partners around the world to create AI models for British, Indian, and Australian English. The group had to handle 20 regional languages in order to implement the Hindi AI model.

"SRI-B developed the Hindi language for Galaxy AI. Developing the Hindi AI model wasn't simple. The team had to ensure more than 20 regional dialects, tonal inflections, punctuation and colloquialisms were covered.

Additionally, it is common for Hindi speakers to mix English words in their conversations," the statement said.

As per the company, the team had to carry out multiple rounds of AI model training with a combination of translated and transliterated data for developing the Hindi model for Galaxy AI.

"Hindi has a complex phonetic structure that includes retroflex sounds - sounds made by curling the tongue back in the mouth - which are not present in many other languages.

"To build the speech synthesis element of the AI solution, we carefully reviewed data with native linguists to understand all the unique sounds and created a special set of phenomes to support specific dialects of the language," SRI-B Head of Language AI Giridhar Jakki said.   

Recently, several companies have started developing AI models for Indian languages, with Hindi being one of the major language.

"The Vellore Institute of Technology helped secure almost a million lines of segmented and curated audio data on conversational speech, words and commands. Data was a crucial component for a task as critical as incorporating the fourth most spoken language in the world into Galaxy AI. Working with universities ensured Samsung was using the highest quality data," the statement said.

To develop AI language models British, Indian and Australian English, Thai, Vietnamese and Indonesian, SRI-B has joined forces with teams around the world.

Samsung brands its AI technology platform as Galaxy AI.    

Galaxy AI now supports 16 languages, so more people can expand their language capabilities even when it is offline, the statement added.