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Developer Builds Multilingual Voice AI Assistant to Help Indian Farmers in 10 Days

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A developer built Farm & Field, a voice AI assistant for Indian farmers, as part of Murf AI's 10 Days of Voice Agents challenge. The assistant allows farmers to ask questions in Malayalam, English, or Manglish about weather, crop prices, and agricultural advice without typing or navigating menus. It uses Deepgram for speech recognition, Google Gemini as its language model, and Murf Falcon for low-latency text-to-speech responses. The system can remember returning users with their consent, escalate serious crop problems to human agents, and hand off complex queries to a specialist AI agent. Key features include real-time market price lookups, weather tools, outbound call alerts, and a dashboard to track call outcomes.

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