NEW DELHI — Intel India on Monday announced a collaboration with the Digital India BHASHINI Division to enable offline, real-time translation and transcription on Intel-powered AI PCs, expanding access to multilingual artificial intelligence tools for students and educators.
The partnership will bring BHASHINI’s Vidyalekha utility to AI PCs powered by Intel processors, allowing speech recognition, translation and transcription to run directly on devices without requiring constant internet connectivity.
Developed by the Digital India BHASHINI Division under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Vidyalekha is designed to bridge language barriers for college students, particularly those educated in regional languages. The tool can transcribe English lectures and translate them into a student’s preferred Indian language, functioning offline on laptops.
Intel and BHASHINI said the collaboration aims to democratize multilingual AI by making device-level innovation accessible in classrooms, schools and academic institutions across the country.
“This marks a significant milestone in getting Indic language models and applications to run on AI PCs powered by Intel Core Ultra series processors, enabling high performance, power efficient AI inferencing on end user and edge devices,” the companies said in a statement.
The integration allows AI workloads to be executed locally on personal computers, delivering low-latency performance while preserving data privacy and confidentiality. Running models directly on devices also enables operations without network connectivity, a key advantage in areas with limited internet access.
By enabling sovereign AI models to operate on AI PCs, the companies said they are moving advanced AI capabilities beyond cloud and data center environments and placing them directly in the hands of users.
At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Intel and BHASHINI demonstrated automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech and translation models operating in real time on Intel Core Ultra Series-powered AI PCs.
“By optimising BHASHINI and AI4Bharat models for Intel Core Ultra processors, we have enabled efficient execution across CPU, GPU, and NPU resources, delivering high performance while maintaining power efficiency,” said Gokul Subramaniam, president of Intel India.
BHASHa INterface for India, or BHASHINI, is India’s AI-driven language technology initiative under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The platform supports more than 36 text-based systems, 22 voice interfaces and 35 international languages, with the goal of reducing literacy and language barriers through AI-enabled tools. (Source: IANS)
