In our last episode we introduced the problem that diversity in India presents to Fintech and started our new theme of Fintech for Bharat. This week we continue in our series on Fintech for Bharat and shift the focus to addressing the issue of linguistic diversity.
According to the 2011 language census survey, India has 121 languages spoken by over 10,000 people, with 21 of them recognized as official languages. Despite the fact that 90% of India’s population does not speak English, the majority of the internet in India is in English. How does FinTech reach the masses in India with such a diverse set of languages in this situation?
To discuss this and more we caught with Arvind Pani, co-founder and CEO of Reverie Language Technologies. In the episode we cover:
- Scope of the language diversity in India
- Challenges that are faced by FinTechs dealing with this diversity
- How addressing these challenges can help make FinTech more inclusive
- An overview of Reverie’s offerings
- Reverie’s experience in solving these challenges
So tune in to learn everything you wanted to know about how to solve for the language barrier.
Timeline
00:00 Start
01:00 Introduction
01:37 About Arvind
06:20 The scope of the language problem
11:15 Impact on User Experience
15:45 Overview of Reverie’s solutions
19:57 Implementing multi-language interfaces
27:21 Overview of business model
28:35 Impact of Reverie’s solutions
31:07 How to contact Reverie
Additional information
- Reverie’s website
- Getting in touch with Arvind – arvind [dot] pani [at] reverieinc [dot] com