{"id":1012852,"date":"2026-06-08T08:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012852"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:29:25","slug":"giving-ai-a-rural-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/08\/giving-ai-a-rural-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving AI a rural voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, India\u2019s digital agriculture story revolved around connectivity. Mobile phones reached villages, smartphones became affordable and government services steadily moved online. Yet one critical barrier remained: language. <\/p>\n<p>Today, a new generation of artificial intelligence tools is helping bridge that gap, allowing farmers to access expert advice simply by speaking into their phones in their native languages. The result is a significant shift in how agricultural knowledge is delivered across rural India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, India\u2019s digital agriculture story revolved around connectivity. Mobile phones reached villages, smartphones became affordable and government services steadily moved online. Yet one critical barrier remained: language. Today, a new generation of artificial intelligence tools is helping bridge that gap, allowing farmers to access expert advice simply by speaking into their phones in their native languages. The result is a significant shift in how agricultural knowledge is delivered across rural India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012897,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012852\/revisions\/1012897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}