Just last Friday, we launched the LangNet Telegram Bot, and since then we’ve had hundreds of voice recordings come in.
We’re just getting started.
Our goal at LangNet is to leverage the diverse, multilingual community to genuinely create a marketplace for language data for every conceivable purpose and in all the world’s languages.
The LangNet Telegram bot is our first step towards fulfilling that goal, and we can only imagine where we can go with this.
We have set aside a significantly large token pool to crowdsource the initial datasets in the following 17 languages: English, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, German, French, Arabic, Hindi, Portuguese, Italian, Indonesian / Malay, Korean, Vietnamese, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew.
At present, the bot only serves up sentences in English, but we are working hard on rolling out sentences in new languages, so we will keep you updated on progress.
Now here’s a play by play on how to use the LangNet Telegram bot to earn LANG tokens (you can also watch the video tutorial):
1. Join the LangNet Telegram group
2. Tap on the pinned message and tap on the link to the bot
3. Tap on the “Start” button at the bottom
4. Tap “Yes”
5. Type in /set_country ${YOUR_COUNTRY} and /set_language ${YOUR_LANGUAGE}
6.Tap camera icon to switch to audio record mode
7.Tap /record_voice to get sentence to record
8.Briefly skim over the text in bold font — this is what you will record
9.To begin recording, tap and hold the mic icon and read out loud the text in bold font
10.Get validation message (LANG earned! 💰)
11.Record the next sentence on screen
12.Continue recording sentences to earn LANG tokens 💸
N.B. If you get a message saying that your recording was not validated, just move on to the next sentence instead of trying to record the previous sentence again 🏃
If you have any questions on using the bot, reach out to the LangNet admins in our Telegram group.