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Offline AI in your language · updated 2026-10-16

Can offline AI handle Punjabi?
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ in speech, text and translation, with the figures each source reports.

Short answer. Text and translation, yes; speech only with an Indian-language model. Whisper lists Punjabi, but its paper counts 0.8 hours of Punjabi training audio and reports 102.4% word error rate on FLEURS (large-v2). Punjabi is where AI4Bharat’s IndicASR did best of all 22 languages on natural speech in the IndicVoices paper: 12.9%, against 89.1% for a Whisper model and 44.0% for Meta’s MMS. Qwen3 lists Punjabi; Meta’s Llama cards do not. IndicTrans2 scored 57.8 chrF++ from English to Punjabi on conversational sentences, while Google Translate scored 61.1 in the same 2023 paper. ANVE has not tested Punjabi yet. Coverage and figures are as of October 2026.

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What open models cover in Punjabi

TaskModelsWhat the source says
Speech to text: WhisperWhisper large-v2, large-v3The Whisper paper counts 0.8 hours of Punjabi speech with Punjabi transcripts and 117 hours paired with English text. Large-v2 scored 102.4% word error rate on FLEURS. The large-v3 card gives no Punjabi figure.
Speech to text: Indian-language modelsIndicConformer, IndicWhisper, Meta MMSIndicConformer lists Punjabi (MIT licence). IndicWhisper averages 20.5% on Punjabi test sets, 23.1% on FLEURS. IndicVoices, natural speech: IndicASR 12.9% (trained on 71 hours), MMS 44.0%, Whisper 89.1%.
Chat, summaries, draftingQwen3, Gemma, Sarvam, LlamaQwen3’s launch post lists Punjabi. The Llama 3.3 and 4 cards and the gpt-oss card list or test no Punjabi. MILU (2024 test, Indian exam questions; open base models, 5-shot): Llama 3.1 70B 64.6%, Gemma 2 27B 59.94%, and the closed GPT-4o 73.84%. Sarvam-1 and Sarvam-M name Punjabi.
TranslationIndicTrans2, NLLB-200IndicTrans2 paper (2023), conversational set (IN22-Conv), chrF++: English to Punjabi 57.8, Punjabi to English 62.7; NLLB 1.2B distilled scored 54.3 and 60.1. Google Translate scored 61.1 for English to Punjabi there, and 52.7 against IndicTrans2’s 50.6 on web and Wikipedia sentences (IN22-Gen).
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Gurmukhi, Punjab and the neighbouring states

In India, Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) is written in Gurmukhi script, the form that FLORES-200 and IndicTrans2 list (pan_Guru). The 2011 Census counted 3,31,24,726 people with Punjabi as their mother tongue, 2.74% of India and the eleventh largest group. Punjab had 2,49,17,885. Haryana had 24,00,883, Rajasthan 22,74,342, Delhi 8,73,477, Himachal Pradesh 6,15,022 and Uttar Pradesh 5,08,736.

The Census groups Bagri (16,56,588 speakers) and Bilaspuri (2,95,805) under Punjabi, alongside Punjabi proper (3,11,44,095). Speech from Haryana or Rajasthan may follow those varieties; none of the sources tests them. Punjabi written in the Shahmukhi script of Pakistan is outside the Census and outside the models’ listed scripts.

For English meetings, the Svarah paper measured Whisper large at 6.7% word error rate on speakers whose mother tongue is Punjabi, against 5.3% for native Hindi speakers.

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What to test before you rely on it

  • Record unscripted Punjabi, and mix in speakers from Punjab, Haryana and Delhi. The IndicVoices result for Punjabi is the strongest in the table, which is a reason to test it, not to trust it.
  • Check that the transcript uses Gurmukhi and not Devanagari or Roman letters.
  • Check Gurmukhi digits (੧ ੨ ੩ against 1 2 3), rupee amounts and dates, and names written in Gurmukhi.
  • Test the mix of Punjabi, Hindi and English if your staff talk that way; none of the sources reports a result for it.
  • Compare IndicTrans2 and NLLB-200 on the same English-to-Punjabi notice, and ask a Punjabi reader to mark errors.
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Where ANVE stands

ANVE’s meeting-minutes maker handles Hindi, English and Hinglish today. Punjabi has not been tested on ANVE yet, so there is no ANVE result to report and nothing here promises support.

Models change, and so will the evidence on this page. ANVEAI installs updates on site today, signed update packages applied offline by USB are not on ANVE yet, and ANVE does not update itself over the internet, so a newer Punjabi model would be a deliberate update that someone installs. The security page has the details.

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Questions people ask

Can Whisper transcribe Punjabi?
It accepts Punjabi, but with 0.8 hours of Punjabi training audio the paper reports 102.4% word error rate on FLEURS for large-v2. Use an Indian-language model, or test your own audio first.
Is there an offline Punjabi speech model?
Yes. AI4Bharat’s IndicConformer lists Punjabi (MIT licence), and the Vistaar IndicWhisper models include Punjabi under an MIT licence. In the IndicVoices paper IndicASR scored 12.9% on natural Punjabi speech.
Do Llama models support Punjabi?
Not officially: Meta’s Llama 3.3 and Llama 4 cards list Hindi but not Punjabi. Qwen3 lists Punjabi, and Sarvam’s smaller models name it. Gemma’s cards say over 140 languages without a list.
Can offline AI translate Punjabi documents?
Yes, with caveats. IndicTrans2 scored 57.8 chrF++ from English to Punjabi and 62.7 from Punjabi to English on conversational sentences. In that 2023 paper Google Translate led for English to Punjabi, so compare on your own text.
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What is not real yet

No sealed ANVE unit exists; every image of the appliance on this site is a labelled render. The software runs today on a development machine. No customers yet, no certifications, no delivery date, and the final price is not announced.

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