Preserving the Tuvaluan language
Speak in Tuvaluan and we will write down the words. Check the words, fix any mistakes, and save. Every recording helps teach the computer to understand Tuvaluan.
Talk about your day in Tuvaluan
Sautala
Have a conversation in Tuvaluan. Speak and the computer will try to understand and respond. Tap any word to see its dictionary definition.
Read Aloud
Take a photo of Tuvaluan words — from a book, newspaper, letter, or sign — and read them out loud. We will turn your voice into written words.
- 1 Take a photo
- 2 Check the words
- 3 Read out loud
- 4 Save
Choose a photo of Tuvaluan text, or use the buttons below
How It Works
Te Gana Tuvalu
Tuvaluan is an Austronesian language spoken by approximately 11,000 people in Tuvalu, a small island nation in the central Pacific. It had no existing speech recognition technology before this project.
Samoan Bridge
Samoan and Tuvaluan share significant phonological and lexical overlap. We fine-tune Facebook's MMS model (pre-trained on 1,100+ languages including Samoan) using CTC-aligned Tuvaluan audio recordings.
Training Data
Our models are trained on a combination of licensed, publicly available, and internally generated data. We use only data that we are permitted to use and follow strict privacy and compliance standards throughout the training process.
Collaborators Welcome
We welcome collaborators. Send a request to be added to the repository.
This system uses a smart AI that learned Samoan first, and we taught it Tuvaluan. It listens to your voice and guesses the words based on what it has learned from others.
Contributors
People who have given their voice to help teach the computer to understand Tuvaluan.
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Word-Matching Game
Help us by matching words together. This teaches the computer which words sound alike in Tuvaluan.
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Contributions are saved for training data review.