Sourashtra, for which the new text-to-speech models were built, belongs to which language family and is spoken mainly in which state?
- A.Dravidian, Tamil Nadu
- B.Indo-Aryan, Tamil Nadu
- C.Indo-Aryan, Gujarat
- D.Dravidian, Karnataka
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Explanation
The correct answer is Indo-Aryan, Tamil Nadu. The release describes Sourashtra as a minority Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Sourashtra community in Tamil Nadu, which makes it unusual: it is an Indo-Aryan tongue surviving inside a state whose major language, Tamil, is Dravidian. That is also why the models are offered for text written in the Tamil script as well as the Sourashtra script. Options A and D are wrong because they place the language in the Dravidian family. Option C is wrong on the state: although the community traces its roots to the Saurashtra region, the language today is spoken mainly in Tamil Nadu, not in Gujarat. This mismatch between family and location is exactly the point a question setter likes to test.
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Practice Questions
BHASHINI has developed text-to-speech models for Sourashtra in collaboration with which institution?
- A.IIT Madras
- B.Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
- C.IIIT Hyderabad
- D.Anna University
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The Digital India BHASHINI Division, which works under the Digital India Corporation in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, built the models jointly with IISc Bengaluru, and the speech corpus used for training was developed at the institute SPIRE Lab.
Read the full explanation →Which architecture was used for the new Sourashtra text-to-speech models?
- A.VITS
- B.Tacotron
- C.WaveNet
- D.Transformer-XL
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The models built by BHASHINI and IISc Bengaluru use this architecture and generate Sourashtra speech directly from written text.
Read the full explanation →On which platform has the Sourashtra speech corpus been made available?
- A.DIKSHA
- B.AIKOSH
- C.UMANG
- D.API Setu
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The corpus is listed there as the SPICOR TTS 3.0 Sourashtra Corpus and offers more than 28 hours of gender-balanced Sourashtra speech data developed at IISc Bengaluru, with content in both the Sourashtra and the Tamil script.
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