#tehiku — Public Fediverse posts

"#KarenHao only really gets her teeth into this point in the book’s epilogue, “How the Empire Falls.” She takes inspiration from #TeHiku, a #Māori AI #speechrecognition project. Te Hiku seeks to revitalize the #te_reo language through putting archived audio tapes of te reo speakers into an AI model, teaching new generations of Māori.
The tech has been developed on consent and active participation from the Māori community, and it is only licensed to organizations that respect Māori values"

#AI + the question of #ownership: "#TeHiku shows that when AI tools are built by organizations with entirely different #incentive structures in place, they can produce wildly different results. As long as AI is designed for the purposes of the #competitive #accumulation of capital, firms will continue to find ways to exploit labor, degrade the environment, take short cuts in data extraction, and compromise on safety, because if they don’t, one of their competitors will."

https://jacobin.com/2025/07/altman-openai-artificial-intelligence-labor-environment-deepseek

The incredible folks at #TeHiku are on the lookout for a full stack developer in #Auckland. If you ♥️ #TeReo this might be your gig.

#FediHiring

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/te-hiku-media_full-stack-developer-job-in-auckland-cbd-activity-7246604420119969793-ictc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

Huge congratulations to #TeHiku Chief, and advocate for #TeReo #DataSovereignty, Peter-Lucas Jones, on being recognised as part of the @thetimes #AI100. Huge congratulations!

https://time.com/collection/time100-ai-2024/

I'm humbled and awed to be in the company of so many accomplished artists, researchers, practitioners, guardians, technologists and designers as part of the Fantastic Futures Conference #FF24 Key Speakers lineup - presented by #NFSA on behalf of the #AI4LAM community.

Peter-Lucas Jones, and the work of #TeHiku Media in preserving and protecting Indigenous speech data of #TeReo is an effort I have long admired. Associate Professor Kirsten Thorpe's work at the Jumbunna Institute at University of Technology Sydney also centres on data sovereignty for Indigenous data, from an archival perspective.

Eryk Salvaggio - @CyberneticForests - also an alum of the #ANU School of #Cybernetics, like myself does incredible work in interrogating social and cultural impacts of #AI, especially in #ComputerVision.

Kartini Ludwig's use of creativity at Kopi Su Studio to empower artists runs counter to the prevailing norm of scraping the internet to build #LLMs and #diffusion models.

And Associate Professor Sydney Shep's trans-disciplinary work in book history and print culture, as well as her practice as a letterpress printer and bookbinder, is a fascinating exploration of how our cultural histories shape our futures.

Together, we hope to convene conversations that help shape the future of #AI and #ML within the #GLAM sector.

Huge thank you to Keir Winesmith and @ingridbmason for the opportunity, and to Ashlinn H. who I know is doing incredible work behind the scenes.

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/fantastic-futures-canberra-2024-key-speakers

The lovely folx at #TeHiku in #Aotearoa are looking for a #DevOps type person who wants to work with #TeReo and #Pasifika #language technologies.

Incredible people, including @keoni

Please boost - I want Te Hiku to have the best people to choose from.

https://www.seek.co.nz/job/69369728

"The tools for building speech-to-text systems – which allow Te Hiku to transcribe their radio content – and other speech recognition technology are fairly accessible, such as Mozilla’s open-source tool Deep Speech ...

with just its initial 320 hours of data, Te Hiku was able to build a speech-to-text engine with an initial word error rate of 14 per cent ..."

- #DonavynCoffey

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/maori-language-tech

#Aotearoa #TeReoMāori #TeHiku #DeepSpeech #SpeechRecognition