An independent lab for open Filipino AI.
We release models, datasets, and tools anyone can use. First up: speech that today's AI gets wrong.
Join the waitlistSaid
ʔa
Meant
ka
A glottal stop replaces /k/. Common with cleft palate.
Most speech AI is trained on clear, standard English. Speech after a stroke, with a cleft palate, or in therapy gets treated as noise.
Our first project builds what Filipino clinicians and developers are missing, in the open. Tagalog first, then Cebuano, Ilocano, and Hiligaynon.
What we release
Open datasets
Collected with consent and documented, so anyone can check how they were made.
Open models
Released with weights, training code, and honest benchmarks.
Tools
Apps and APIs built on our models, for people who'd never touch a model.
Where the speech project is
Now
Groundwork
Consent and recording protocol, reviewed by specialists.
Step 2
Pilot dataset
Tagalog syllables and words.
Step 3
Baseline model
Open weights and a public benchmark.
Step 4
Tools
Practice app and developer API.
Help build it from day zero.
tinig labs is independent and run by one developer, in public. Join to follow along or to help.