| # 🇱🇰 Trilingual AI for Sri Lanka |
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| **Building open and accessible Speech AI for Sinhala, Tamil, and English.** |
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| We are developing AI technologies designed specifically for the linguistic and cultural context of **Sri Lanka**, with a focus on making high-quality speech and language technologies available for everyone. |
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| ## 🎙️ Our Focus |
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| Our primary focus is **Speech AI**, covering the complete speech technology stack: |
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| - 🗣️ **Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR / STT)** — Speech-to-text for Sinhala, Tamil, and English |
| - 🔊 **Text-to-Speech (TTS)** — Natural and expressive speech synthesis |
| - 🌐 **Multilingual & Code-Switching Speech** — Handling Sinhala, Tamil, and English in real-world conversations |
| - 🧠 **Speech & Language Models** — Models that understand Sri Lankan linguistic patterns |
| - 📚 **Datasets** — High-quality datasets for training and evaluating Sri Lankan AI models |
| - 🔬 **Research & Evaluation** — Benchmarks and evaluation resources for Sri Lankan languages |
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| ## 🌏 Languages |
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| | 🇱🇰 Sinhala | Speech recognition, synthesis, datasets & language AI | |
| | 🇱🇰 Tamil | Speech recognition, synthesis, datasets & language AI | |
| | 🇬🇧 English | Multilingual and code-switching speech AI | |
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| We are particularly interested in **real-world Sri Lankan speech**, including different accents, dialects, speaking styles, environments, and Sinhala–English / Tamil–English code-switching. |
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| ## 🎯 Our Vision |
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| > **AI that understands Sri Lanka's languages, voices, and people.** |
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| Our goal is to help build an ecosystem where Sinhala and Tamil are first-class languages in modern AI systems, while supporting English and multilingual communication across Sri Lanka. |
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| ### 🇱🇰 Sinhala · தமிழ் Tamil · English |
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| **Building Speech AI for Sri Lanka.** |
