C-DAC has been a pioneer in developing and proliferating the use of Indian languages on computers. This technology is now extended to include multimedia and multilingual computing solutions covering a wide range of applications such as publishing and printing, word processing, office application suites with language interfaces for popular third party softwares on various operating platforms, electronic mail, machine translation, language learning, video and television and multimedia content in Indian languages. These have been successfully commercialized.

The two groups of C-DAC involved in the development of multillingual technologies are:

	Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology (GIST) The GIST Group of C-DAC facilitates use of Indian languages in IT. In its endeavor to stay abreast with technologies worldwide, GIST has been adopting the latest concepts to be able to stay tuned with the Internet enabled world.
	Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) The AAI Group of C-DAC is involved in a number of activities such as knowledge-based understanding systems, Machine Translation System, Information Extraction & Retrieval, Language Tutors, Web-based solutions include Chat Server, and many other strategic software developments and solutions.