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Bengaluru – Today, at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, visionaries and experts gathered to address one of Bengaluru's most pressing challenges – mobility. Hosted by the Bengaluru Science and Technology (Best) Cluster,
Recognising the challenge of accessing oral information online, especially for communities with low literacy levels, the team devised a solution to empower them using the audio search engine. They got in touch with the organisation ‘Namma Halli Radio’ that had gathered an audio corpus of a few hours containing community interactions in colloquial language.
Share Bengaluru, February 22, 2021: The International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB), conducted the third Web Science for Development (WS4D) workshop with the ‘Brave Conversations 2021’ conference on February 19-20th. The virtual event further developed the conversations begun in 2020 whilst exploring the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst for a leap forward in global digitalisation. It also included a multitude of workshops and panel discussions conducted by IIITB’s Web Science Lab. With the aim of creating a fast-paced learning environment the concep...