# 🇱🇰 Trilingual AI for Sri Lanka

**Building open and accessible Speech AI for Sinhala, Tamil, and English.**

We are developing AI technologies designed specifically for the linguistic and cultural context of **Sri Lanka**, with a focus on making high-quality speech and language technologies available for everyone.

## 🎙️ Our Focus

Our primary focus is **Speech AI**, covering the complete speech technology stack:

- 🗣️ **Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR / STT)** — Speech-to-text for Sinhala, Tamil, and English
- 🔊 **Text-to-Speech (TTS)** — Natural and expressive speech synthesis
- 🌐 **Multilingual & Code-Switching Speech** — Handling Sinhala, Tamil, and English in real-world conversations
- 🧠 **Speech & Language Models** — Models that understand Sri Lankan linguistic patterns
- 📚 **Datasets** — High-quality datasets for training and evaluating Sri Lankan AI models
- 🔬 **Research & Evaluation** — Benchmarks and evaluation resources for Sri Lankan languages

## 🌏 Languages

| Language | Focus |
|---|---|
| 🇱🇰 Sinhala | Speech recognition, synthesis, datasets & language AI |
| 🇱🇰 Tamil | Speech recognition, synthesis, datasets & language AI |
| 🇬🇧 English | Multilingual and code-switching speech AI |

We are particularly interested in **real-world Sri Lankan speech**, including different accents, dialects, speaking styles, environments, and Sinhala–English / Tamil–English code-switching.


## 🎯 Our Vision

> **AI that understands Sri Lanka's languages, voices, and people.**

Our goal is to help build an ecosystem where Sinhala and Tamil are first-class languages in modern AI systems, while supporting English and multilingual communication across Sri Lanka.

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### 🇱🇰 Sinhala · தமிழ் Tamil · English

**Building Speech AI for Sri Lanka.**