This is one of the topic discussed during Unconference session at Kozhikode on November 1st, 2025.
brief discussion pointed towards a combination of efforts with AI generated and Lingustic Expert’s manual efforts.
Inviting your further ideas/discussions!
There is a plugin for dictpress that uses Azure APIs to auto-generate audio. He actually generated 1.5L Kannada audio files for all Alar entries.
This has been integrated to alar and under testing already and looks very promising!
@benVar @cibu A good path how AI can solve this very quickly!
അതെ; ഇത്തരം പരിഹാരങ്ങളാണ് വേണ്ടത്. manual labour കഴിയാവുന്നതും കുറയ്ക്കണം.
Preview of Kannada pronunciation generated with the tool (and Google Cloud TTS) integrated into dictpress is available here: "ಹೆಸರು" — Kannada (ಅರ್ಥ) to English meaning of "ಹೆಸರು."
Setting up a devops/pipeline for Olam currently (also specifically to enable volunteering and tech collaboration). Once that’s setup, can use the the tool to bulk-generate audio for both English and Malayalam dictionaries on Olam.
Beautiful. Precisely the way to go. However, I don’t think this is what Viswam has in mind. He probably needs the ability to bulk upload pronunciations from volunteers for “നല്ല” Malayalam.