README.md

📖 MAATA – An AI-Powered Streamlit App

Built as part of Summer of AI 2025 under Swecha Telangana
Team Size: 5 Members
Duration: 4 Weeks (1 Week Build, 1 Week Test, 2 Weeks User Growth)

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📌 Project Overview

Maata is a simple, multilingual web application that allows users to share their local content and know about each other.

It is designed to collect and upload data from users in Telugu language—making it a “Corpus Collection Engine” that helps build datasets for open-source AI

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🎯 Project Goals

• ✍🏻 Allow users to create content in Telugu
• 🗣️ Collect native language data from real users
• 🚀 Launch a feedback campaign to promote real-world usage

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🧠 Features (MVP)

• Upload images, input text and videos
• AI-powered [translation/summarization/captioning]
• Input in Telugu language
• Content gets saved for corpus collection

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⚙️ Tech Stack

• Frontend : Streamlit
• AI Model : HuggingFace Transformers – Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt
• Backend : Python
• Deployment : Hugging Face Spaces