Heritage-Connect-An AI-Powered Multilingual Guide to Tamil Nadu's Historical Gems

Abstract: HeritageConnect is an AI-powered multilingual platform designed to make Tamil Nadu’s cultural and historical heritage more accessible to a global audience. Leveraging natural language processing, machine translation, and voice technologies, the system allows users to engage in real-time, interactive conversations with a virtual guide. Users can ask questions in Tamil, English, Hindi, French, or Spanish—via text or voice—and receive informative, context-aware responses about heritage sites, architecture, festivals, and local traditions. The platform integrates a Flask backend with MongoDB for managing user sessions and chat history, and uses models like DeepSeek and Hugging Face for intelligent language processing. With a mobile-responsive frontend, voice support through the Web Speech API, and robust user personalization, HeritageConnect redefines how cultural knowledge is delivered, making it immersive, inclusive, and multilingual.

Keywords: Heritage Tourism, Multilingual Chatbot, Natural Language Processing, Voice Interaction, Cultural AI