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Te Hiku Media builds ethical AI for Te Reo Māori transcription

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Te Hiku Media has developed an AI model specifically for transcribing the Te Reo Māori language, aiming to digitize extensive archival footage. Their initial model, created in 2016, achieved 86% accuracy, which they deemed insufficient compared to commercial alternatives. The team has since focused on continuously improving their models, successfully building ethical and sovereign AI from scratch. AI

IMPACT Enables digitization of cultural archives and preserves linguistic heritage through specialized AI.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes the development of a specialized AI model for a specific language, which falls under research and development. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Te Hiku Media builds ethical AI for Te Reo Māori transcription

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Te Hiku Media trained an AI model for Te Reo Māori transcription to digitise the thousands and thousands of hours of archival footage. Peter-Lucas, @ keoni , an

    Te Hiku Media trained an AI model for Te Reo Māori transcription to digitise the thousands and thousands of hours of archival footage. Peter-Lucas, @ keoni , and their team developed their first model in 2016 that had an 86% accuracy rate when transcribing Te Reo. They decided th…

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