scope:

The scope of the pre-standardization study is as follows:

1. This series of documents is a pre-standardization study focusing on identifying the gaps in the standards. The series does not offer any recommendation on prioritization of the gaps nor defines any standards to address the identified gaps.

2.The study covers only the listed 22 scheduled languages. The series offers no comments on the validity of its content for the non-scheduled languages. However, readers are free to take the contents and apply them to the non-scheduled languages.

3. The working group was divided into specific focus groups that together dominate the technology landscape. The working groups are accessibility, evaluation metrics, speech, text, and script. Each focus group output is available as a separate report.

4. Each focus group's individual scope of investigation supersedes the scope listed in this section.

5. Identification of required standards is based on the use cases driving the deployment. This analysis should lead to a detailed description of the gaps that exist. The study can adopt methodologies and incorporate results from similar undertakings from around the world. A good example is the work undertaken by the European Union through ELRA.

6. The series of documents can also propose workshops, conferences, detailed discussions, and deliberations to trigger research initiatives, contests, etc., to promote investigations to detail the gaps.

7. AI is driving most of the technological innovations in language-enabled products. Although this series is not limited to AI-driven technology, there will be a distinct bias toward gaps as determined by the development of language products with strong AI components. Readers are requested to highlight gaps in the series related to the non-AI-based language-enabled products.

A critical disclaimer is that this study is only about the standard gaps and will not make any effort to define the required standards. The authors do not make any commitments that the work will equally apply to other non-official languages of India.