plain X is heading to Samvād 2025, CITLoB’s annual conference in New Delhi
plain X will take part this Friday in the panel “Human and Technology Intersection – Platforms with Purpose: Streamlining Workflows, Empowering People, and Scaling for Growth” at Samvād 2025, CITLoB’s annual conference taking place in New Delhi on 30–31 October.
Organized by CITLoB – Confederation of Interpreting, Translation and Localisation Businesses, Samvād is one of Asia’s key stages for debating the future of language services, from technology to LSP operations. The 2025 edition is held in New Delhi, focusing on the opportunities that APAC, and India in particular, represent for the industry.
The plain X angle: humans + AI, on purpose
On the panel, plain X will share its human-in-the-loop approach. Automation where it makes sense (transcription, translation, subtitling, voice-over) paired with human editorial control, review, terminology validation, and attention to cultural nuance that only human teams can guarantee. As a product, plain X is a 4-in-1 platform with collaborative workflows, roles/permissions, quality checkpoints, glossaries, comments, and an API for seamless pipeline integration.
“AI hub”: choosing the best engine for each task
A core pillar is our engine-agnostic philosophy. An AI hub that integrates 18 ASR/MT/TTS engines (including Indic options), enabling routing by language, domain, cost, or quality KPI. In a geography with vast linguistic diversity, this avoids one-size-fits-all and maximizes quality outcomes.
India-first integrations
plain X already integrates a machine translation engine from an Indian company. We expect to add Indian ASR (transcription) and TTS engines next, broadening coverage and choice for Indic languages within the platform.
India: scale, diversity, and people in the loop
India recognizes 22 scheduled languages in its Constitution. And according to the 2011 Census, the 12 most spoken include Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam, Punjabi, and Assamese. This diversity confirms that technology + local human validation is the path to accurate, impactful content. plain X supports the 12 most widely spoken official languages in India.
Responsible partnerships
plain X advocates partnerships between large technology providers and local startups, and ties this vision to an responsible AI ecosystem, where Priberam is a co-founder of the Centre for Responsible AI, working to build explainable, fair, and sustainable AI products with measurable quality.
