Phonetic Keyboard System With Hindi Voice Typing Introduced In Delhi Police

New Delhi, Jan 30 : Delhi Police has introduced a phonetic keyboard system with Hindi voice typing facility in the closed net of Crime Criminal and Networking Systems (CCTNS), on which all works of investigation, starting from lodging of FIR, writing case diaries and submitting charge sheets are done across the country. The Investigating Officers were facing difficulty in computer typing in Hindi, the lingua franca of the region, which is mostly used by the complainants and people to converse and record their statements.

With this technological solution, now investigating officers will be able to speak and record their work electronically using phonetic keyboard, dispensing the dependency on Hindi typists or the compulsion to record Hindi versions in English alphabets, bringing in efficiency, accuracy and transparency in investigation works, said the Delhi Police. Developed and executed under Special Commissioner of Police Technology and Implementation Muktesh Chander, it is the first-of-its-kind system innovation to have taken place in north Indian Hindi-speaking states. The newly-developed procedure is quick, easy and Artificial Intelligence (AI) based.

A dictionary of traditional Hindi/Urdu words, often used in police work, has been added, for the convenience of users. The system catches new Hindi and Urdu words also and stores the same for the database, thus expanding its the vocabulary to include all words and syntax used in police works. As a pilot project, the system has been launched in all police stations of New Delhi and North Districts and shall be rolled out in all the districts shortly, it added.