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DP/D/001
Language should be infrastructure, not an afterthought translation layer over English products.
Most digital systems still assume English fluency - or treat Indian languages as thin overlays. Dialect, code-mixing, and oral preference are routinely ignored.
When technology only understands a narrow linguistic slice of India, opportunity, dignity, and access shrink for hundreds of millions of people.
Students, small business owners, citizens navigating services, elderly users, frontline workers, and anyone who prefers to think in an Indian language.
Interfaces force translation in the user’s head. Voice systems fail on dialects and noisy environments. Domain vocabulary collapses in legal, medical, and agricultural contexts.
What would an assistant look like if Hindi - or Tamil, or Bengali-was not treated as a translated version of English?
language
How do we evaluate systems under code-mixing and dialect variation rather than clean textbook text?
language
Which domains create the highest cost when language fails?
language