Samsung has revealed that the Samsung R&D Institute – Bangalore (SRI-B), the brand’s largest R&D centre outside Korea, played a crucial role in the development of new language AI models for the Galaxy AI. The centre collaborated with teams across the world to develop models for languages like British, Indian English, and Australian English, as well as Thai, Vietnamese and Indonesian, which enabled Samsung’s AI model to support a cumulative total of 16 languages.
The development of the Hindi language model was next, and here’s how the centre accomplished it.
How SRI-B helped develop AI language model for Hindi
- To develop an accurate Hindi language model, the research team at SRI-B had to ensure more than 20 regional dialects, tonal inflections, punctuation and colloquialisms were covered.
- Hindi speakers also tend to use English words in between normal sentences, which required the team to carry out multiple rounds of AI model training with a combination of translated and transliterated data.
- Samsung collaborated with with academic partners like the Vellore Institute of Technology to secure almost a million lines of segmented and curated audio data on conversational speech, words and commands in Hindi.
- Samsung 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 to build the speech synthesis element of the AI solution, said Giridhar Jakki, Head of Language AI at SRI-B.
- This resulted in the new Galaxy AI, which supports 16 languages, so more people can expand their language capabilities, even when offline, thanks to on-device translation features such as Live Translate, Interpreter, Note Assist and Browsing Assist.
Samsung Galaxy AI features
Samsung Galaxy AI showcased a bunch of features with the Samsung OneUI 6.1 update, which includes the likes of live phone call translations, a Samsung keyboard, an interpreter, Samsung notes and more. You can take a detailed look at each of these features here.
