Indigenous Language Preservation AI
Preserve voice, story, symbolism, and cultural meaning in one living archive.
ingenious_app is a community-led web app for uploading language recordings, layering them with transcript and context, protecting sacred material, and releasing approved learning previews with care.
Archive Layers
The MVP is built around stewardship, not just speed.
Capture
Audio and transcript stay linked.
Each entry stores the recording, transcript or field notes, and stewardship metadata together so the language artifact remains grounded in lived context.
Protection
Sacred material is reviewed before release.
Redaction signals and access levels keep the system from treating all language data as equally public or equally teachable.
Learning
Approved entries become learner-safe previews.
Once reviewed, the archive can expose carefully shaped summaries, translations, and cultural notes for students without flattening meaning.
Featured Languages
Build one strong language space at a time.
Pacific
Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian)
Archive entries can connect ocean language, wayfinding, chant, and kinship rather than isolating vocabulary from place.
Strong candidate for story-first lessons and place-linked phrase archives.Southwest
Dine Bizaad (Navajo)
Review-heavy flows help hold ceremonial language apart from everyday phrases while still keeping contributor recognition visible.
Good fit for layered permissions and elder-led review.Great Lakes
Anishinaabemowin
The archive model supports dialect notes, land ties, and pronunciation guidance in the same record.
Useful for multi-community comparison and teaching archives.Learner Journey
Progress feels like a cultural journey, not a game loop.
Hear the voice
Start with the recording, not a flashcard, so pronunciation and cadence stay central.
Read the story
Learners move through transcript, translation, and cultural notes as one unfolding artifact.
Understand the context
Words point outward to land, ceremony, kinship, and social use rather than acting as isolated labels.
Return with care
Review status and permissions remind learners that access is relational, not automatic.