Thank so much Venky! Re Tamil, there was this interesting report that came out recently about content moderation in Tamil <https://cdt.org/insights/moderating-tamil-content-on-social-media/>, from the Center for Democracy and Technology.
Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ameyann> On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 at 12:56, Venkatesh Hariharan via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > Radhika, > > Viswam.AI is working on Telugu LLMS while AI for TN > <https://aitamilnadu.org/> is working on Tamil LLMs. Viswam has worked > with around 45,000 volunteers to collect 1.5 million voice samples to train > their Automated Speech Recognition system and with colleges around > Hyderabad to collate text for LLMs. They are currently in the process of > training around 100,000 students in AI over a two month period. Around 20 > percent of the time will be spent in collecting data for AI. > > I recently spoke to the Tamil LLM guys and the situation is challenging > but not insurmountable. Notes from my discussion below. > > Case Study: Tamil LLM > ● 70 million speakers > ● 15 trillion tokens needed to train Tamil LLM > ● Available Digital Tokens: 200 billion > ● Tamil Newspapers and Books: 2-3 trillion tokens > ● Need govt and community help to create more tokens > ● Compute is a challenge. Govt and industry help needed. Distributed > computing is an alternative model being explored > > Venky > > Ameya: I shall make a contribution to Global Voices over the weekend. > > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM Yeddanapudi Radhika via Silklist < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Ameya et al! Just contributed in a small way to Global Voices. I was >> wondering if you know of any indigenous-led efforts in India to use AI to >> revitalize, restore, and preserve language. I read the story on the Global >> Voices site about Bultoo Radio (brilliant local name!) but that effort has >> the advantage of having many speakers. I'm thinking of efforts more like >> what Danielle Boyer has done: >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLRLyt5Ux7I >> >> Cheers. >> Radhika >> >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM Ameya Nagarajan via Silklist < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Silklisters (S-listers?) >>> >>> Some of you know me, some of you don't. I'll admit I'm really more a >>> lurker here than a talker, but I am delurking to ask for help. >>> >>> I am the Managing Editor of Global Voices <http://www.globalvoices.org>, >>> a non profit that publishes news from the global south in many many >>> languages. Most of our writers and translators are volunteers, people who >>> really believe in how important it is to get this news out into the world, >>> to cross linguistic barriers and help people understand that really, most >>> of us have the same problems, and actually we need to band together against >>> digital >>> authoritarianism >>> <https://advox.globalvoices.org/special/unfreedom-monitor/> more than >>> distrust regular people from one country over. >>> >>> GV and our partners work to defend the independence of the media >>> <http://advox.globalvoices.org>, the openness of the internet, and the >>> right of everyone, everywhere, to free expression. Our multilingual >>> newsroom publishes in 5 languages and stories are translated into over >>> 30 others <https://lingua.globalvoices.org/>. We work with Indigenous >>> activists >>> <https://rising.globalvoices.org/blog/2025/06/17/join-us-online-meeting-to-highlight-digital-initiatives-for-adivasi-languages-of-india/> >>> to decolonize the internet and digitize their languages, and raise >>> awareness of digital security. We are able to run really great projects, >>> like the climate justice fellowship >>> <https://globalvoices.org/special/global-voices-climate-justice-fellowship-2025/> >>> that pairs Sinophone journalists and global south journalists to write >>> investigative pieces about China's presence in other countries and the >>> climate impacts of it. >>> >>> We've been around for twenty years, and in 2025 we've been very badly >>> hit by Trump's funding cuts and their cascading consequences. We are a very >>> low-cost organization, with no office and few operating costs, and most of >>> our funding goes directly into staff pay. >>> >>> At a time when many for-profit media organizations are struggling, >>> Global Voices’ production and readership have been going up -- but since we >>> are committed to never paywalling and not showing ads, that doesn’t >>> translate into covering our running costs. >>> >>> The four years I have worked at Global Voices have transformed me, my >>> understanding of the world, and my faith in humanity. Yes, working in the >>> news in the past four years I have managed to have my faith in humanity >>> restored. That is the power of Global Voices. I can find another job, but I >>> don't know if we can ever build another Global Voices. Our mission is now >>> more urgent than ever. Please help us keep going! Donate if you can >>> <https://globalvoices.org/donate/>, and share in your networks. >>> >>> I apologize if this was not a good forum for this plea, but we're >>> desperate! Here are some recent stories that give you a sense of what we >>> do, pulled from the newsletter: >>> >>> Truth-to-power stories, like this one about an Australian journalist >>>> punished for her post on Gaza >>>> <https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad999&id=c2f49b4088&e=ff64988260> >>>> or this one about Turkey's political oppression >>>> <https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad999&id=643f270485&e=ff64988260>, >>>> remind me how much courage there is among journalists and activists. Other >>>> stories remind me about the complexity of the world beyond the headlines >>>> that are screamed over and over in my feed, like this one about >>>> Uzbekistan's >>>> football team >>>> <https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad999&id=643f270485&e=ff64988260>, >>>> or this one about the de-colonialization of the official language in >>>> Niger >>>> <https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad999&id=55d6b513e3&e=ff64988260>. >>>> And then there are the articles that remind me of the joy in the world, >>>> like this one about International Reggae Day >>>> <https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad999&id=3dafc036e2&e=ff64988260>, >>>> this one about using K'iche’ Maya glyphs to reconnect art and language >>>> <https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad999&id=86ae3f66e8&e=ff64988260>, >>>> or the new special coverage about migration and belonging >>>> <https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad999&id=a5bd592612&e=ff64988260> >>>> . >>> >>> >>> >>> Cordially, >>> Ameya Nagarajan >>> (she/her) >>> >>> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ameyann> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Silklist mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Translator/Owner* >> *AzulIndica Translations* >> *North Vancouver BC, Canada* >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Silklist mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >> > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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