Information and Broadcasting Ministry, through its WaveX Startup Accelerator Platform has launched the Kalaa Setu – Real-Time Language Tech for Bharat’ Challenge. This nationwide initiative invites India’s leading AI startups to develop indigenous, scalable solutions for the automated generation of audio, video, and graphic content from textual inputs, with support for multiple Indian languages. The challenge focuses on scalable solutions that support three core areas of AI-driven content generation. First, text-to-video generation. Second, text-to-graphics generation and another, text-to-audio generation.

        Startups can register and apply for the challenge through the WAVEX portal at www [dot] wavex[dot]wavesbazaar[dot]com under the Kalaa Setu challenge category till 30th of this month. Startups can also submit their application for Bhasha Setu real-time language translation challenge till 22nd of this month, under the Bhasha Setu challenge category.

        WaveX is the dedicated startup accelerator platform launched under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting’s WAVES initiative, aimed at nurturing innovation in the media, entertainment, and language technology sectors.