A computer chat program that speaks Hindi could open up computers to India's illiterate millions.
Computer science students in Chandigarh, 248 kilometres (154 miles) from Delhi, have developed an interactive software program called Deepti which can converse intelligently with people in natural language.
"The good thing about Deepti is that it is suitable for the Indian environment," explained Ritvik Sahajpal, one of the students who developed the software.
"Deepti speaks in Hindi and since the majority of people in India are computer illiterate and don't speak English, this feature is really great," he told the BBC programme Go Digital.
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