Understanding the scope of regional languages through artificial intelligence

India is home to more than 19,500 languages or dialects and 96.71 per cent of the population in the country have one of the 22 scheduled languages as their mother tongue, according to the Census 2011. Yet the language of technology, even in a country as diverse as ours, largely remains one, English. How can then we make use of the sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) technology, that has taken over the world in just a few years, to bridge the gap between India's billion Internet users and technology? To answer this, let us understand the scope of non-English population, the largest underserved market through the lens of AI. Getting any bot to understand the natural language of a user is always difficult and remains a big hurdle for all the players in the segment.