Lend your voice to the Gun language.
We are building the first large, carefully checked collection of written and spoken Gungbe (Gun language). If Gungbe is your mother tongue, you can help — from your phone, in a few minutes a day.
✍️ Translate
You see a short sentence in English and French and write it in Gungbe, with the correct letters and tone marks.
✅ Review
You check another speaker's translation: approve it, correct it, or reject it.
🎙️ Record
You read a Gungbe sentence aloud. The app warns you if the sound is too quiet or too loud.
🎧 Listen
You listen to another speaker's recording and confirm that it says exactly the words shown.
Who can take part
- You are 18 years or older.
- Gungbe is your first language, or you speak it fluently every day.
- You have a smartphone with Telegram and a little mobile data.
- You can read English or French well enough to understand short sentences.
How it works
- Send us a WhatsApp message. We send you the link to the project app, which opens inside Telegram.
- Read and accept the contributor terms in the app, and tell us your gender, age range and the region where you grew up speaking Gungbe.
- An administrator approves your account.
- Work whenever it suits you. Some contributors receive a daily plan, for example 50 sentences a day.
Is it paid?
Payment depends on the agreement you make with us before you start. Where work is paid, it is calculated from your approved work only — translations that passed review and recordings that passed checking — which you can see at any time in the app under My stats.
Your voice and your privacy
- Your name, phone number and Telegram username are never put in a dataset. Recordings carry only an anonymous speaker code with your gender, age range and region.
- Your voice may still be recognisable to people who know you. Please only take part if you are comfortable with that.
- Never type or record real names, phone numbers or account numbers.
- You can stop at any time and ask us to remove your recordings from future versions of the data.
The full terms are on the contributor consent page, and how we handle personal data is explained in our privacy policy.
Why this matters
Speech recognition, translation tools and voice assistants exist for a handful of the world's languages. Gungbe is not one of them yet. Every sentence you translate and every recording you check is a step towards banks, clinics and public services being able to speak to Gungbe speakers in their own language.
Speak Gungbe? Join us.
Send a WhatsApp message and we will reply with the link to the project app.