The Central University of Tamil Nadu, Tiruvarur, has launched a programme to convert the research works of its faculty into multilingual podcasts using artificial intelligence.
According to a CUTN release, the AI-driven podcast was designed in a discussion format that captures the essence of the faculty’s research work and aimed to bridge the gap between high-level scholarly work and the broader public, ushering in a new era of accessible, inclusive, and engaging educational content.
These podcasts, produced in Tamil, English, and Hindi, are available on CUTN’s official website https://cutn.ac.in/podcast/. The podcast will also be available in other vernacular languages on request. Subsequently, within a short period, the materials will be available in CUTN library.
Each episode is curated to maintain the integrity of the original work while ensuring it is engaging and understandable to non-specialist audiences, including the local community, in the vernacular language, the release added.
Stating that this initiative was not just digitising research works, the institution said that by turning research work into dynamic, easily consumable audio formats, the evolving preferences of today’s mobile-first, multitasking learners was also addressed.
