arXiv:2606.29024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: IndicTrans2 is the strongest open English to Indic translation system, but like most systems it is trained on general text and tends to sound stiff on casual, conversational input. We adapt IndicTrans2-1B to conversational register across all 21 Indic languages using only public data (OpenSubtitles, BPCC-H-Daily, Tatoeba). Plain fine-tuning improves conversational chrF but forgets the general domain (it drops 3.9 chrF on FLORES for Hindi). Mixing general data back into training (experience replay) and then averaging the fine-tuned weights with th

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