Volume no :
10 |
Issue no :
01
Article Type :
Google Scholar
Author :
Pavithra J, MaharajMaran G, Kishore raj A ,Balaji S N, Kawin V S
Published Date :
08 - April - 2026
Publisher :
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security (JAICS)
Page No: 1 - 6
Abstract : Tamil Nadu is home to more than 38,000 ancient temples, UNESCO-recognized monuments, and centuries-old cultural festivals representing one of the world's most concentrated heritage ecosystems. Despite this wealth, tourists frequently struggle to access meaningful, contextual, and multilingual information about the heritage sites they visit. This paper presents the Smart Heritage Guide for Tamil Nadu: an AI and Large Language Model (LLM)-powered multilingual heritage tourism system designed to serve as an intelligent digital companion for tourists, students, and culture enthusiasts. The system integrates Groq Cloud's ultra-fast LPU inference infrastructure with the llama-3.1-8b-instant model to enable real-time, contextually rich, multilingual conversational guidance in English, Tamil, and Hindi. A Heritage Vision module leveraging the llama-4-scout-17b vision-language model enables users to photograph heritage sites and receive AI-generated architectural analysis, iconographic descriptions, and historical narratives.
Keyword AI-powered heritage tourism; Large Language Model; multilingual NLP; Groq Cloud; vision-language model; Dravidian architecture; conversational AI; Tamil Nadu tourism; FastAPI; interactive mapping; cultural heritage information systems.
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