SHREEYA

नमस्ते

HELLO · MY NAME IS

Shreeya

I build tools and resources for Nepali. Stay along if you are interested in low-resource NLP and fun tech projects!

CURRENTLY:training an ASR model for नेपाली

ABOUT · एक छोटो परिचय

I am Shreeya, an Applied AI Scientist by training. I am passionate about building tools and technologies for Nepali.

My work focuses on low-resource NLP. I am also interested in developing speech technologies for Nepali language. I am currently building Kaanchi - a S2ST for Nepali. The goal is to develop a system that will work in low-connectivity regions of Nepal. My mother is my motivation behind Kaanchi, I want to build a system that will help people like her converse in English.

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Shreeya Dhakal
श्रीया - Yep, that's me!

things I've made

The Boudhanath stupa at night, strings of prayer flags running from its spire to the ground, a row of prayer wheels turning below.

DIGITAL ART

A Starry Night in Kathmandu

An interactive web rendering of Boudhanath stupa, the first of Nepal's architectural landmarks in the series.

PRINT JOB #धCREATIVE TOOL

A portrait rendered entirely out of Devanagari text, the characters tinted where the photo has colour.

> धाका · Dhaka

A browser-only studio that turns photos and video into dithered, halftoned and Devanagari character art.

Kaanchi

SIDE क

नेपाली ⇄ English

SPEECH AI · IN PROGRESS

Speech-to-speech translation for Nepali, built to work in low-connectivity regions of Nepal.

GOL-01 · गपुस्ता ०००

सिक्नु · TO LEARNभेटिए ०

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waiting for two gliders to meet

GENERATIVE ART

Game of Life →

Conway's Game of Life where every cell carries an अक्षर, and colliding gliders assemble real Nepali verb forms.

FIELD NOTES

#icodeformyभाषा

An initiative to build and improve AI models for Nepali. Currently, working on a speech recognition model for Nepali. The blog covers my process and findings as I build models for Nepali, and the challenges of building AI for low-resource and morphologically rich languages.

  1. 20 AUG 2026How audio becomes tokensI am currently working on training an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model for Nepali, and this is the first of…
  2. 22 JUL 2026Benchmark and Resource Gaps for Nepali Speech TasksEven with the breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) there are significant performance gaps in Natural Language…
  3. 01 MAR 2025Low-Resource NLP in the Era of LLMs - IntroductionThere has, undoubtedly, been drastic shifts in the landscape of Natural Language Processing (NLP) research and…
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