2025 03 05 dhwani worksop 1

Dhwani Workshop - March 2025

• Dhwani is a self-hosted GenAI platform designed to provide voice mode interaction for Kannada and other Indian languages.
• We want to make AI accessible for native local languages
• Dhwani Project Website

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• Workshop Agenda
• Deploy Gradio App to HuggingFace Spaces
• Build and Deploy
  • Kannada Text Translator App
  • Kannada AI Text Chat App
  • Kannada Voice AI App

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• Prerequisites
• Python 3.10 required + VsCode [ Installed ]
• Ubuntu 22.04
• Huggingface Account
• GitHub Account

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• Good to Have, to start hacking immediately
• Fork the below repositories and clone your forked repository into your computer
  • https://github.com/slabstech/llm-indic-server
  • https://github.com/slabstech/indic-translate-server
  • https://github.com/slabstech/asr-indic-server
  • https://github.com/slabstech/tts-indic-server

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• Download the Huggingface model's

• Steps:

  1. Create a virtual environment:

     python -m venv venv
     

  2. Activate the virtual environment:

     source venv/bin/activate
     

  3. Install dependencies:

     pip install huggingface_hub
     

  4. Download the models
  5. tts - huggingface_cli download ai4bharat/indic-parler-tts
  6. asr - huggingface-cli download ai4bharat/indicconformer_stt_kn_hybrid_rnnt_large
  7. translate -
     • indic to english - huggingface-cli download ai4bharat/indictrans2-indic-en-dist-200M
     • english to indic - huggingface-cli download ai4bharat/indictrans2-en-indic-dist-200M
     • indic to indic - huggingface-cli download ai4bharat/indictrans2-indic-indic-dist-320M
  8. llm - huggingface-cli download Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct

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• How your projects might look like, You can expand and modify for your use case
  • Dhwani Voice AI
  • Dhwani Translate App
  • Dhwani - Text Chat AI
  • Dhwani ASR

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• YouTube video related to Dhwani
• Dhwani Voice AI
• Dhwani - ASR
• Sanjeevi - English

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• Join the Dhwani Discord group for updates and collaboration to build Dhwani