Created to help academicians, trainees, and experts, the platform utilizes designs like Gemini and Claude to sum up files, and Sarvam’s Text-to-Speech engine to produce voiceovers.
A group of scientists at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-Hyderabad) has actually established an AI platform, SARAL AI, that can transform research study documents into summarised video discussions.
The platform will come in handy for academicians, trainees, scientists, and experts who choose out details from research study and scholastic documents to construct PowerPoint discussions. A video-based discussion is likewise provided, it is still in its early phases, doing not have images and animation.
Motivated by NotebookLM, constructed with Generative AI
Prof. Ponnurangan Kumaraguru, who led the group, stated that the slides are fixed. “There is a big scope of improvements, consisting of images and videos. Production of posters, a typical function in the scholastic world, can likewise be a possibility,” he stated.
He stated Google’s NotebookLM, which assists in summing up files and produces audio discussions, motivated the group in establishing the item.
The group likewise made up Lakshmanan Natraj, Rahul Sundar, Imandi Sai Ganesh, Arihant Rastogi, and Vishnu Sathwik. “We wished to develop an application that would immediately take a term paper as its input and create a 3-4 minute succinct video based upon slides in 11 Indian languages,” he stated.
Customisable outputs based upon paper structure
The platform uses generative AI engines, such as Gemini and Claude, to create the summaries.
Kumaraguru stated that as soon as the script remains in slide format, Sarvam’s Text-to-Speech engine is utilized to create audio in the wanted voice (male or woman) and language.
The option chooses out appropriate details to develop slides around– Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion and a Conclusion, the common index products in any term paper. The output enables the user to personalize the bullet points in each slide. The users, then, can continue to develop a video and audio (with a voiceover).
What next
He stated SARAL is among the very first tools established under the domain democratiseresearch.in. The group is thinking about a tool that can bridge the space in between the market and the clinical neighborhood, helping with the transfer of brand-new understanding and patents.
He specified that a platform would assist in much better innovation transfer by bridging the space in between scientists who produce documents and a market typically uninformed of these developments.
The SARAL group has actually chosen to arrange hackathons and competitors around the idea of ‘democratisation of research study’ to promote it.
Released on July 29, 2025
