Leveraging AI for a More Equitable India

Longtail AI Foundation is a non-profit developing AI-driven solutions for societal well-being and equity — starting with the communities most underserved by today's technology.

Our free, open tool for learning Indian Sign Language. More about the project →

What we work on

Communication accessibility

Tools that help the deaf and hard-of-hearing community communicate, learn, and access content in Indian Sign Language.

Digital literacy & balance

Helping families and young people use technology responsibly — building healthy habits around screens, attention, and online safety.

Healthcare & lifestyle

AI-assisted health information and personalisation that meets people where they are, in the languages they speak.

Recent posts

  • Signer detection through weak supervision

    A short note on how we are using weak supervision to detect the signer in news videos — a building block for collecting ISL data at scale.

  • Talk in ISL: Empowering the Deaf Community in India

    India is home to nearly 63 million deaf individuals. The Talk in ISL project sets out to amass an open ISL dataset and build technology on top of it — openly, responsibly, and at quality.