These people (in no particular order) have been volunteering on various dimensions to uplift the Odia language on the ground level.
Dr. Shantipriya Parida
- Shantipriya has been leading a group of volunteers/interns to:
- Generate a corpus of the Odia language.
- Machine Translation
- Generative Text
- Generative Audio
Subhashish Panigrahi
- Subhashish has been one of the Admins of Odia Wikipedia.
- He has developed many tools and contributed in the following ways:
- 50,000+ Odia words speech corpus
- Co-developer of Odia Unicode Converter
- Co-manager and highest contributor of Odia Common Voice, a voice dataset
Vivekanand Pani
- Vivekanand has been the co-founder of Reverie Technologies, which developed:
- Easy Odia typing
- Content/Web Portal Localization
- Speech
- Machine Translation
Krishna Kabi
- Krishna has been working on the localization of the Odia language.
- He has led a group of volunteers to localize Telegram in the Odia language and many other Apps.
Subhadarshi Panda
- Subhadarshi has been developing open-source solutions for the Odia language.
- He has developed the following for the Odia language:
- Neural Machine Translation
- Word Embeddings
- Language Model
Anurag Behera
- Anurag is a co-founder of Srujanee, which is a multi-language blog platform.
Jnanaranjan Sahu
- Jnana has been the Tech lead of Odia Wikipedia.
- He has developed many tools for the Odia language, like the Odia Unicode Converter.
Sangram Keshari Senapati
- Sangram is a world record holder for his continuous contributions to Odia Wikipedia.
- He is also a Co-Founder of Shubhapallaba, an Odia magazine.