iTantra -Indian Multilingual TTS & STT Aided Neural Transceiver Radio Access for low bitrate links
Source
- Smart India Hackathon 2026 (opens in a new tab)SIH 2026Collection launched: 21 Aug 2026
Source summary
Develop an entirely offline Android voice/text transceiver for low-bitrate links, supporting Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Odia, Bengali and English. Convert speech locally to sentence text, transfer via Wi-Fi/Bluetooth to another phone/device and speak it locally, with push-to-talk or conversational mode. Alert messages should play loudly without interruption. Use open-source STT/TTS only on low/mid-range phones; demonstrate two-phone operation and evaluate memory/CPU, recognition/intelligibility and end-to-end latency.