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AksharaLP by Sourojit Dhua — https://huggingface.co/sourojitdotcom/AksharaLP-1M
Copyright 2026 Sourojit Dhua

AksharaLP-1M (model weights, word lists and JavaScript/Python runtime) is licensed under the
Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE). Commercial use is permitted.

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    Transliteration by AksharaLP (Sourojit Dhua) — https://huggingface.co/sourojitdotcom/AksharaLP-1M

Recommended in-app credit (e.g. in an About, Settings or Licenses screen):

    Hindi typing powered by AksharaLP by Sourojit Dhua

The model files in this repository were built with the help of the following
third-party resources. No third-party data is redistributed in this repository
other than as learned model parameters and derived word lists.

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Aksharantar — AI4Bharat
  https://huggingface.co/datasets/ai4bharat/Aksharantar
  License: CC0 (mined data and existing sources) / CC-BY (manually collected data)
  Used for: romanized <-> Devanagari word pairs for training.
  Note from the dataset card: "We do not own any of the text from which this data has been extracted."

IndicXlit — AI4Bharat
  https://github.com/AI4Bharat/IndicXlit
  License: MIT. Copyright (c) 2022 AI4Bhārat
  Used for: teacher model for knowledge distillation.

IndicCorp v2 — AI4Bharat
  https://github.com/AI4Bharat/IndicBERT/tree/main#indiccorp-v2
  License: CC0
  Used for: Hindi lexicon and word-bigram language model (lex.bin, lm.bin).

CMUdict — Carnegie Mellon University
  https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict
  License: BSD-2-Clause-style. The full notice is reproduced below.
  Used for: English word cues.

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