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Can you build AI for a language that 20 million people speak, but nobody agrees how to write?This is the story of Typhoon Isan—what happened when scientists, engineers, and linguists joined forces to tackle a language without a standardized writing system. I'll share where tech skills hit walls (you can't annotate data without spelling rules) and how linguistic expertise opened doors (creating Isan's first practical orthographic standard).You'll see the collaboration in action: from community data collection to building an ASR model that runs 19x faster than Whisper. The small takeaway? A blueprint for low-resource languages. The bigger one? How cross-disciplinary collaboration pushes past limits that look technical but actually need different expertise working together.Come see what's possible when different fields truly collaborate—and how you might bridge those gaps yourself.
