Digital India Bhashini Mission is a mission by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The mission envision harnessing natural language technologies to create a diverse ecosystem of contributors, partnering entities and citizens for the purpose of transcending language barriers, thereby ensuring digital inclusion and digital empowerment in an Atma Nirbhar Bharat. To this end, the Mission aims to develop a public digital platform for making available open source artificial intelligence (AI) models in Indian languages to enable speech-to-text and text-to-speech conversion and optical character recognition in these languages and also to enable text-to-text translation and transliteration among these languages and English. Development and efficacy of the AI models requires large and good quality language datasets in speech and text forms for the 22 scheduled languages of India, Manipuri language is one of these languages.
Engagement - brief overview of the role:
Job is to collect voice data from around 2000+ individuals from across 16 districts in Manipur. It will be divided among 6 Coordinators. Voice data is just the conversation between the Coordinator and participants. The conversation will be recorded using mobile apps which will be installed in the participants' mobile phones. The conversation with the participants is done using a structure through our andoird app.
Interaction with participants will happen at a designated place like a hotel in the district town.
Each interaction with each participant usually takes around 4 hours to complete. A Coordinator will interact with two participants per day.
Coordinators will move to all the districts one after another. You will need to even stay in the hotels for hill districts.
This is an engagement of minimum 6 months starting by the end of September 2023.
You will be provided proper orientation before jumping into actual interaction with participants.
Requirements from the applicants
We need people who are fluent in English both spoken and written for smooth work flow but the interaction with participants for voice data collection will entirely be in Manipuri.
We need good conversationalist with a vibrant personality.
We need people who can lead a conversation or take an internview. The interaction with the participants will involve talking about the interest areas of each of the participants. It can be anything under the sun even recent Finance or Tech or Political stuffs. You will lead and continue the conversation on a particular topic as mentioned by the participant. It will look like an interview with the participant.
This work would be almost like a 9am-5pm job. We expect full time commitment.
Minimum qualification
Any University Graduate is eligible. We encourage people from Journalism, Mass Comm. for the role. And, we highly encourage women to apply for this.
Remuneration
Rs.24000/month as your take home amount.
Application process
This is for immediate joining. Please send your CV to connect@korou.org with a short description about yourself which aren't mentioned in your CV either in the email itself or in a separate document.
For any query, please feel free to write to us at connect@korou.org