summerofai2025

Desi Proverbs & Local Lore Collector is a lightweight, mobile-friendly Streamlit app to collect Indian proverbs, folk sayings, and cultural facts across languages. It auto-detects language, stores structured metadata (language, region, tags), and exports a clean corpus for research and cultural preservation. Built for low-bandwidth users, deployable on Hugging Face Spaces, and designed with an offline-first approach.

Ruchulu Lens AI

Ruchulu Lens AI is a cross-platform AI-powered application that celebrates India's regional food diversity. The app offers:

Regional Food Explorer – Shows local dishes based on user location, revealing region-specific ingredients, cooking styles, and preparation. Lens Feature (Food Recognition) – Users can upload or capture an image of a dish, and the AI will it and provide ingredients, recipe steps, and cultural context. AI Culinary Assistant – Interactive assistant to answer cooking-related questions, suggest dietary plans, offer substitutions, and guide users through cooking.

A crowdsourced platform to collect and categorize cultural data from across India for the Swecha Corpus project.