How to contribute to your mother tongue to flourish in digital age
Lets beat boredom & do something useful for our regional languages
Idea 1 : Join Google Translate Community
Teach Google Translate how to speak your language better. It’s easy and fun
- Visit https://translate.google.com/community
- Sign in with your Google credentials if asked
- Select 2 to 5 languages of your choice
- Hit Save ! Thats it !!
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Now you can help Google translate by translating/verify the existing translations
I am someone who always believed Technology can help local/regional languages and cultures to flourish. Google translate community is my way of contributing to my mother tongue Tamil — Vicky AV
Idea 2: Spend time in Google Crowdsource App
Teach Google Translate your language, help Google Photos identify objects, help Gboard understand handwriting, or contribute to an ever-growing and diverse library of images to help train machine learning models
Are you bored while commuting to office/college ? Why don’t you spend time in some interesting stuff ?
- Download Google Crowdsource App — https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.village.boond&hl=en_US&pli=1
- Chose languages of your choice. I chose Tamil & English
- Thats it !
Idea 3 : Contribute to WikiSource
WikiSource keeps scanned copies of lot of valuable books/articles. But scanned images are not very readable.
If you are interested, you can transcribe those images to text or help proof read others transcription
E.g. I contributed to convert scanned copy of ஆல்பர்ட் ஐன்ஸ்டைனின் நம்மை மேம்படுத்தும் எண்ணங்கள் book to text.
To contribute to Tamil WikiSource
- Visit https://ta.wikisource.org/
- Create an account by clicking புதிய கணக்கை உருவாக்கவும் link in top right corner. Then login with that account
- Once you logged in, go to section மின்வருடிய நாட்டுடைமை நூல்களின் மெய்ப்பு விவரங்கள் in home page
- Click on மெய்ப்பு பார்க்கப்படாத மின்னூல்கள் (Not proof read)
- You can chose any pdf mentioned in the list & start proof read it
- For help : Visit https://ta.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AE%89%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF:%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%AF%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF
