HumanGT

A language is how a culture remembers itself.

Recipes, manners, jokes, the way a story gets told. A culture is carried in how its people speak. HumanGT helps communities record their language, in their own voices, so everything it carries can be passed on.

I want to preserve my community's language NVIDIA

Member, Inception Program

An elder telling a story to her granddaughter at a kitchen table

01 What HumanGT is

Made to be passed on

Most of what a community knows was spoken, not written. It survives by handoff: one person says it, another learns it, and the chain holds as long as both are there. Each generation that doesn't receive it is a link that can't be repaired later.

HumanGT is a place to record a language and everything it carries, built on one idea: a record is only worth keeping if someone can inherit it.

Recorded in your voice, kept under your name.

Everything you add stays credited to you. Not anonymized, not pooled, not quietly absorbed.

Made for the next person.

Your kids, your students, someone who finds their way back to it. Recorded so they can learn from it, not just listen to it.

Open to its own community.

Every entry shows who recorded it and where they say they're from, so the community can see its record, add to it, and correct it.

02 How it works

If you can talk, you can contribute

There's nothing to type and nothing to figure out. HumanGT speaks with you in a language you're comfortable in, like English, Hindi, or Spanish, and you answer in your own.

A grandson recording his grandfather on a porch

Say who you are.

Your community, your language. Takes a minute.

Record the same few things everyone starts with.

A handful of words, a phrase, a short story, so every language here begins from common ground.

Then record what you want passed on.

The lullaby. The proverb. The way your uncle told it. Speak it directly, or upload recordings you already have.

For an elder who'd rather skip the screen entirely, a family member can sit with them and run it.

03 Where things stand

The window is real, and so is the way back

Around 7,000 languages are spoken today. About 3,000 are no longer being learned by children, which is the stage where a language begins to end. Very few have any real presence online, so when the speakers go, there is usually nothing left to learn from.

7,000languages spoken today

3,000no longer learned by children

halfcould be gone by 2100

Cassette tape, photographs, a brass bell and a phone showing a waveform, laid on linen

But recording works. Every revival starts the same way: someone recorded, someone taught, someone received it.

Māori

5% → 25%

of schoolchildren speaking it

Hawaiian

2,000 → 19,000

speakers, and climbing

HumanGT is built by Humainority, a nonprofit building technology for equity, and is a member of the NVIDIA Inception program.

04 Who it's for

If any of this sounds familiar

You moved, and there's no one around to speak it with.
You understand it when you hear it, but your kids won't.
An elder in your family holds most of it, and you keep meaning to record them.
Your dialect is being absorbed into the bigger one next door.
You already teach it, and your materials live scattered across notebooks and voice memos.

We're choosing the first communities to build with, not just for. HumanGT is early. Tell us what language you'd want to record and what you'd want passed on first. We'll bring you in as it takes shape.

Tell us what you'd want passed on

Received. You're part of the first thread — we'll write to you as HumanGT takes shape.