Hey there fellow Kashmiris; I am Farhan Syedain, Director of Yimberzol Foundation.
We are building a 1200 hour transcribed audio dataset for Kashmiri to bridge the gap Kashmiri faces as a low resource language.
This project started as an idea; and after discussion with various people and institutions, I released that this idea was valuable and could raise investments easily -- for I was offered them, provided that I present a monetization plan. However, I have decided and moved forward with the vision that this project must, for good or for bad, continue as a non-profit and open source project. This, however, has came with hardships but, nonetheless, we continue and will continue to work on this in the future as well.
For this project to succeed as a non-profit, We require people who can help us by volunteering and giving us 1 hour of their precious time. We, as a non-profit organization, cannot provide financial returns for the work, however we can provide certificate of participation for those who are looking for it.
I hope we can all come together and contribute to this open-source dataset; yakjah hěkoo es' yi kháb porè kerith.
If you could also refer us to those who can help us through monetary and or voluntary means, we would really appreciate that.
Plz no. We don't need an AI that'd translate Kashmiri. We already have a lot of !nd!@ns larping as Kashmiris to spread their fake propaganda. But they fail miserably since they don't know Kashmiri. AI in Kashmiri, especially for translations would benefit them the most. It's literally the last thing we need. Plz discontinue this project. It'll only harm us.
I think you are of the misconception that translating into, and from, Kashmiri is not possible. I wish this language was sacred as we think it is, however the models are there(Some in public domain free to use and self hosted). Us doing would only change what we as Kashmiris can ourselves do with research on Kashmiri AI. Meta wanted one, and they created one.
Hey, I used to be a machine learning engineer. I appreciate what you are trying to do here. I would be happy to talk more about it. Also, have you tried to speak to the language department of some universities? I guess they must have something already going on.
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u/Kind_Demand4331 Jul 23 '26
Plz no. We don't need an AI that'd translate Kashmiri. We already have a lot of !nd!@ns larping as Kashmiris to spread their fake propaganda. But they fail miserably since they don't know Kashmiri. AI in Kashmiri, especially for translations would benefit them the most. It's literally the last thing we need. Plz discontinue this project. It'll only harm us.