53-Year-Old Baby Bokale Teaches Marathi to AI And Makes Rs 400 Per Hour

The widespread integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across various aspects of life is widely acknowledged by now.

People from all ages of life have begun using AI in their lives and many have even started earning. An example is 53-year-old Baby Rajaram Bokale who has been successfully earning about $5 (about Rs 400) per hour by teaching Marathi to Microsoft's AI tools.

Just within 11 days, she managed to earn Rs 2000 through a simple smartphone.

Photo by Chris Welsch/ Microsoft

How Bokale is using her voice to train AI models in Marathi

Baby Rajaram Bokale is a resident of Maharashtra¡¯s Kharadi suburb in Pune.

These days, she has been keeping quite busy with a new job, apart from household chores and running her own business of spices.

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The new job involves her taking her smartphone and recording her own voice in Marathi for about an hour.

"She settles cross-legged on her bed... She opens an app in her smartphone, and in her clear, resonant voice, she begins to read a story aloud in her native tongue, Marathi," Microsoft states in its blog.

That is how Bokale is using her voice to train AI models in Marathi. "I¡¯m really proud that my voice is getting recorded, and someone is about to learn Marathi thanks to my voice... and also proud that it will make these tools and features available in Marathi."

"I used what I earned to buy a part and repair my grinder... That¡¯s money I wouldn¡¯t normally have," she said.

Not just earning, but also learning

Apart from teaching AI, Bokale herself has been learning quite a lot.

As she reads out, her also gets to know more - from personal finance to how banks work and how to avoid scammers and frauds as well as how to pay using UPI.

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Microsoft mentioned, "In India, if you don¡¯t speak Hindi or English, it can be difficult to access technology that helps people thrive ¨C apps, tools and digital assistants that English and Hindi speakers take for granted. The fact that hundreds of millions of potential customers could benefit from those technologies is why Microsoft and others are in a race to make their products available in those "under-resourced" languages."

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