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Bhashini

Government of India's free national language platform: text, speech-to-text, text-to-speech and translation across 22 Indian languages

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What Bhashini does

  • Government of India's free national language platform: text, speech-to-text, text-to-speech and translation across 22 Indian languages
  • Mobile apps for Android and iOS, plus Bhashini Speak for voice synthesis
  • Free public service under Digital India

Bhashini — straight answers

What is Bhashini?

Bhashini is listed under Translation & Language AI, in the Content & Media Generation category on Flocci AI Tools. Government of India's free national language platform: text, speech-to-text, text-to-speech and translation across 22 Indian languages. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at bhashini.gov.in.

Is Bhashini free?

Bhashini is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 397 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

Can I use Bhashini in a browser, or is there an app?

Bhashini works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on the web, iOS, Android and an API.

What can Bhashini do?

Bhashini does 3 things the catalog singles out: Government of india's free national language platform: text, speech-to-text, text-to-speech and translation across 22 indian languages; mobile apps for android and ios, plus bhashini speak for voice synthesis; free public service under digital india.

What is the best free alternative to Bhashini?

Google Translate is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Translation & Language AI sub-category and is free. Kagi Translate, LibreTranslate and Microsoft Translator also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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  • Browser extension that translates pages side by side (bilingual) with Google, Microsoft, DeepL and LLM engines
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