I built open source Google Translate for indigenous languages
Hey guys, I'm from Kuku Yalanji up in FNQ, and am a software engineer by trade, some years ago I thought to make language tools for my mob.
The site acts as a dictionary and has some language games to help learn.
Though the cool thing is that with AI I've been working on an automated translation system and also the coolest part is an automated text to speech system. Both translation and TTS are very fallible but I hope over time the accuracy will dramatically improve. I'm currently working with my yalanji elders (only a few fluent speakers left) to get all their knowledge recorded and train a proper yalanji model from scratch. the TTS uses a WA tribe for all base vocals) (any user can record audio for any word or sentence laying around their dictionarys, and over time if a user uploads enough recordings, I can train ai voice models in their voice for their own language)
looking for any and all feedback
(if you want to add your own tribe I'd love to assist, also all of the code is open source and you can reuse it however you like)