Software & tools AI-assisted
Te Hiku Media speech tools
A Māori broadcaster built its own speech recognition for te reo Māori from recordings donated by the community, under a data licence the community controls.
Where the human came in
Thousands of speakers recorded phrases; elders checked pronunciation; the organisation wrote a licence that keeps the data under Māori guardianship.
Why it is not slop
The opposite of scraping. A model that exists to keep a language alive, owned by the people who speak it.
Seed entry: written from public sources and awaiting editorial review.