**Executive Summary**
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs launched the beta version of the Adi Vaani mobile application on September 1, 2025, aimed at real-time text and speech translation between Hindi, English, and tribal languages. The application, available on Android, focuses on digitally preserving indigenous knowledge and improving digital literacy and healthcare access. Testing in Scheduled Tribe communities, specifically in Kerala, has not been undertaken, and there have been no state-specific consultations or impact studies in Kerala.
**Key Points / Main Content**
*Adi Vaani Application Overview*
* Launched by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs on September 1, 2025.
* Aims to enable real-time text and speech translation between Hindi, English, and multiple tribal languages.
* Available on the Android platform.
* Focuses on digital preservation of indigenous knowledge, folklore, and cultural heritage.
* Collaborates with national efforts on digital literacy, healthcare, and cultural preservation.
*Key Features of Adi Vaani*
* Offers Text-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text, and Speech-to-Speech translation.
* Incorporates Optical Character Recognition for digitizing and translating tribal manuscripts.
* Provides a comprehensive repository with bilingual tribal dictionaries, primers, and subtitle integration for dignitaries' speeches.
* Includes health and cultural awareness content, such as sickle cell disease information.
*Language Support and Expansion*
* Currently supports real-time text-to-text and speech-to-text translation for Santali, Mundari, Bhili, and Gondi.
* Garo and Kui language support is nearing completion.
* Plans to include more tribal languages in the second phase.
*Outreach and Engagement*
* The government is assessing the total outreach and the number of app downloads.
* The ministry has received feedbacks and testimonials from communities across the country.
* Ministry is engaging with communities through TRIs and language experts for digital literacy training and infrastructural assistance.
*Kerala Specific Information*
* Testing of Adi Vaani in Scheduled Tribe communities, particularly in Kerala, has not been undertaken.
* No State-specific consultations, impact studies, or corrective measures have been conducted with respect to Kerala.
**Impact Analysis**
* **Tribal Communities Across India**
**Impact:** Access to real-time translation, language learning tools, digitized cultural resources, and health information in native languages.
**Action Required:** Provide feedback and testimonials to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs regarding app usability and effectiveness.
* **Ministry of Tribal Affairs**
**Impact:** Gaining a tool to extend its reach and impact in digital literacy, healthcare, and cultural preservation efforts.
**Action Required:** Assess app outreach, downloads, and community feedback to inform future development and expansion.
* **Scheduled Tribe Communities in Kerala**
**Impact:** Currently not directly impacted, as no testing or consultations have been carried out in the state.
**Action Required:** Await future engagement from the Ministry of Tribal Affairs for potential testing, feedback, and adoption of the Adi Vaani app.
Key Entities Referenced
Adi Vaani: A mobile application launched by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs aimed at real-time text and speech translation between Hindi, English, and tribal languages.
Ministry of Tribal Affairs: The Indian government ministry responsible for launching the Adi Vaani app and overall tribal welfare efforts.
Kerala: The state mentioned where the effectiveness and specific consultations related to Adi Vaani are being assessed.
Ministry of Tribal Affairs
ADI VANI APP AND TRIBAL WELFARE IN
KERALA
Posted On: 05 FEB 2026 2:20PM by PIB Delhi
Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Shri Durgadas Uikey informed Lok Sabha today that the
Ministry of Tribal Affairs has launched the beta version of Adi Vaani mobile application on 1st September,
2025. The beta version is currently available on android platform. The project aims to enable real-time text
and speech translation between Hindi, English, and multiple tribal languages (and vice versa), while
offering interactive language learning tools for early learners and students. It also focuses on digitally
preserving indigenous knowledge, folklore, and cultural heritage for future generations, in collaboration
with national efforts on digital literacy, healthcare, and cultural preservation to extend its reach and
impact.
Its key features include Text-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text, Speech-to-Speech translation,
Optical Character Recognition for digitizing and translating tribal manuscripts, and a comprehensive
repository with bilingual tribal dictionaries, primers, and subtitle integration for dignitaries’ speeches in
tribal languages. Health and cultural awareness content, such as timely delivery of sickle cell disease
information, is provided in native languages. Currently, real-time text-to-text and speech-to-text
translation is live for Santali, Mundari, Bhili, and Gondi, with Garo and Kui nearing completion. In the
second phase, more tribal languages are proposed to be included in Adi Vaani.
The Government is assessing the total outreach and number of downloads of the app. The Ministry has
also received feedbacks and testimonials from communities across the country. As the app is in beta phase
and testing is in process, reach, usability and effectiveness of the application among Scheduled Tribe
communities, particularly in Kerala, is not undertaken.
To provide multilingual support, the Ministry has initiated more tribal languages and is also exploring the
modality to provide some of the features in offline mode. Adi Vaani is an online platform which is
accessible from anywhere with internet access on multiple devices or platforms. For the digital literacy
training and infrastructural assistance, Ministry is engaging with the communities through TRIs and
language experts. However, there is no such activity being carried out in the State of Kerala.
No, there hasn’t been any State-specific consultations, impact studies or corrective measures with respect
to Kerala.
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