Leid shidna decide fa gets helpit first
My Words is biggit for the meenit fan somebody needs help, somebody's willin tae gie it, an the only thing in the wye is that they hinna a leid in common.
The name
The hale pint o the product is that a body gets tae say the verra thing they meant, in the wirds they themsels chose, an hae that win throwe tae the ither body hale. Nae a simplified version. Nae fitiver a phrasebook happent tae hae. Their wirds.
It's the test we apply an aa. If fit arrives isna fit the body meant, the tool his failed, nae maiter foo gweed the English leukit.
Fa biggs it
My Words is biggit by C2 Discovery Labs CIC, a community interest company warkin on responsible technology for public an social benefit. Ony surplus gyangs back intae that same purpose.
My Words startit as research intae real-time bilingual conversation mediation, that produced a proof-of-concept application caaed Turnstone. That wis wirkit up intae a warkin system an testit in real settins. Fa did that wark, an fit the research wis, is on research.
The application his sinsyne been shiftit intae C2 Discovery Labs CIC, a community interest company, sae that it's hauden an developed for community an societal benefit raither nor as a commercial asset. My Words is that same testit system, rebrandit an cairried forrit. Turnstone is bein replaced by My Words raither nor rin alangside it.
Foo we spik aboot it
There's a particular wye this kin o product usually gets described, an we've deliberately bidden awa fae it. Nae claims o guaranteed accuracy. Nae hint that it dis awa wi the need for interpreters. Nae futuristic framin o fit is, at the hinner end, a serious tool for a kittle job.
The tone we're ettlin at is the een a gweed practitioner uses: calm, specific, clear aboot fit's kent an fit's nae.
Fit the product is hauden tae
Meanin afore wirds
The job is tae cairry fit somebody meant, wi its tone an its specifics, ower intae anither leid.
Uncertainty bides visible
Far the system isna shuir, the body usin it is telt sae. Confidence is niver implied by silence.
Speir, dinna guess
A question tae mak things clear is a better output nor a confident sentence that micht be wrang.
Human judgement bides in chairge
The professional rins the conversation an cairries the responsibility. The tool supports, it disna decide.
Dignity on baith sides o the screen
The body bein helpit is a participant, nae a subject. They get an interface in their ain leid an they're telt fit's gaun on.
Say fit it's nae for
The boundary is published, keepit up tae date, an pit in front o the fowk usin it. It's nae tuckit awa in the terms of service.
Questions, challenges, corrections
If ye wark in a service far this wid help, or ye think somethin on this site owerstates fit the tool can dee, we'd raither hear it nor no.