Edwin574/LinguAlive

LinguAlive is a community-driven platform dedicated to documenting and preserving indigenous languages, starting with the Ogiek language. ## LinguAlive LinguAlive is a community-driven platform dedicated to documenting and preserving indigenous languages, starting with the Ogiek language. The project brings storytellers, elders, linguists, and learners together around a living archive of voice recordings enriched with human-provided context. LinguAlive focuses on respectful stewardship, accessibility, and a smooth path from an MVP to a production-grade system. ### What LinguAlive Is - **A living audio archive**: Community members can record or upload short voice clips that capture songs, words, proverbs, greetings, conversations, and stories. Submissions include optional context like transcription, speaker details, and location to make recordings discoverable and meaningful. - **A gentle, mobile-first experience**: The interface emphasizes low friction and clarity—large controls, clear feedback, and minimal mandatory fields—so contributors of varying technical familiarity can participate. - **A bridge to long-term preservation**: The current client-only build stores data locally to enable rapid iteration and demos. The architecture, types, and UX are intentionally designed to transition cleanly to a server-backed system (Django, Postgres, object storage) for durable, shared preservation. ### Key Goals and Principles - **Preserve voices faithfully**: Keep recordings in their original form and pair them with human context rather than auto-generated approximations. Context is optional but encouraged. - **Honor the contributors**: Make it easy to contribute but clear what will be stored and how it may be used later. Emphasize informed participation and respectful defaults. - **Design for longevity**: Choose patterns that scale from a one-device demo to a multi-user archive without major rewrites. Keep schemas explicit and portable. - **Inclusive by design**: Favor readable typography, large hit targets, keyboard access, and motion that communicates meaning without distraction. ## Product Overview # …