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They aren't public. Agreed on commercially viable, even in Pakistan, businesses are price sensitive, currently there priced realllly cheap (just because they are small).
Yes! First goal is to get coverage ASAP. I think it will be easy to get dialects in with current model architecture. The hard part will be LLMs catching up on producing consistent text that respects the linguistics as we drill deeper.
Launched them through API. From a business perspective is to get adoption of voice apps in targeted regions. Some companies can now create voice agents etc.
If you have interest/insights in specific languages, would love if you can fill out this form so we can reach out in the future
https://forms.gle/XA6nZbmBNK5K7GJv5Lots of area to cover for sure!
Maybe will make another post in a month of all the cool products that have come out so far :)..
Hope so! It is great that it overall has a big impact on making knowledge more accessible (i.e Khan Academy using it to dub their content in minutes instead of weeks). But there are lots of other areas where it applies as well.
At the moment we are focused on making the models available through API so developers can make some cool things. We are actively monitoring to see if there is an opportunity that we will be better positioned to solve.
We are planning on hosting an online hackathon soon, so will suggest these things as ideas!
Gathering audio data online is not that hard, but getting it accurately labelled is challenging, as the speech understanding systems for those languages aren't there either, so we can't automatically do that
btw I did try to first make it with Pipecat and was having some annoying windows issues with getting libraries installed for daily etc. so I posted something that was easily reproducible for the tutorial...
wow did not know that! Do you feel there is gap in speech understanding here or personalization missing with current TTS?
Yes! I will keep track of this comment for the day we do :P
The model itself can work well for new languages, its just the process of data gathering and maintaining high quality of data is what we have to figure out as we scale across languages.
Currently the model is only given data for these languages so it doesn't know anything else.
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zaidqureshi on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @08:10AM
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Hi HN, we are Zaid, Muhammad and Hammad, the co-founders of Uplift AI (https://upliftai.org). We build models that speak underserved languages — today: Urdu, Sindhi, and Balochi.A billion people worldwide can't read. In countries like Pakistan – the 5th most populous country – 42% of adults are illiterate. This holds back the entire economy: patients can't read medical reports, parents can't...
Hey folks, in 2022 I was building a paid dev bootcamp, I pivoted to building a learn anything product in 2023 and eventually dropped it and switched to focusing on AI (joined AWS bedrock).
I'm giving the course away for free now, it's just an intro course, takes 100 hours to complete and really focuses on problem solving. Great for non-technical people (I had young and a little bit old, like 45 year olds take it and do well). I'll just be glad if people make use of it.
Thanks,
Zaid
An update on consistently tweeting 20 days in a row!
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Right, the portal by default has a 7 day free trial mode. So you can get access to everything and cancel without being charged. Anyone who is learning programming through Learnly will be there for a while to end to end, and is being monitored for by me. So it's not just you being on your own
Good feedback, I'll change it up. Since the content is being actively developed, I don't have a trailer end to end. What I can is trial period of what I have so far. I'm also open to hop on a call to answer any questions. Please reach out to me at
[email protected]
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zaidqureshi on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:32AM
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Hello folks, I'm building an online platform (https://learnly.dev) to teach people software engineering. This program's main differentiator is the focus on problem solving, from fundamentals to practicing real world problems. I'm making it with pilot students that I monitor personally so I can adjust as needed. Please share with anyone who is starting out with their programming journey,...