Indian Institute of Science (IISc) professor Prathosh AP has created an AI model that chants Sanskrit shlokas "perfectly". Vāgdhenu is an open-source Sanskrit text-to-speech system that uses a shloka-to-chant format and can detect Sanskrit verses in any Indian script. "A 15-year-old dream has come true today...No large AI lab, no big engineering team...Just a professor's conviction," he said.