Ko na mauri
Would you check some Kiribati for us?
Taiaoka, buoka ngaira n te taetae ni Kiribati.
Everything in this app was written by a computer, and nobody who speaks Kiribati has looked at it yet. That makes it useless — and, in a clinic, worse than useless.
You'll see one phrase at a time. Say whether it's right, fix it if it isn't, and — if you're willing — record yourself saying it, so other people can hear how it should sound. A few minutes is genuinely useful. You can stop whenever you like.
Your corrections and recordings are saved on this device first, so this works with no signal at all. When there is a connection they are sent to the Oceans of Gratitude team, who use them to build the translator — please don't record anything you would not want them to hear. Your recordings are not sold, not given to advertisers, and not sent to any other company. You can stop at any point and nothing further is sent.
Kanoana / How to do this · taetae ni Kiribati
This Kiribati was written by a computer. If it is wrong, please fix it.
English
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Kiribati — is this right? / E eti ke e kairua?
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Up to twenty-five seconds. Say it once, at a normal speed, then stop. Saved on this device and sent when there is a connection.
That's everything in the list. Ko rabwa — genuinely. Every phrase you confirmed makes the translator better for the next person, and every recording is the beginning of a Kiribati voice for it.
Kanoana / How to use this
The Kiribati above was written by a computer and has not been checked. If it is wrong, please fix it — you would be correcting the app's own words.
How it answers
There is no Kiribati translation model in the world to run, so this does not guess with statistics. It tries four things in order and tells you which one produced your answer. The further down the ladder it goes, the less you should trust it.
A whole phrase somebody entered into the wordlist. As good as whoever entered it.
A sentence frame with its blanks filled from the wordlist. Every piece is shown separately, so you can see which parts a speaker has confirmed and which are still drafts.
Built by grammar rules. Kiribati verbs never change form and the subject rides in front as a particle, so simple sentences can be assembled reliably — but the result is machinery, not usage.
Word by word in the order you typed. Kiribati puts the verb first and the subject last, so this is something to reason from, never something to say.
A single word from the old dictionaries — Bingham 1908, Sabatier and Oliva 1971, Groves — merged by Trussel and Groves. Thirteen thousand headwords, and not one of them checked by a living speaker. It is a starting point for a conversation with somebody, not an answer.
None of this has been checked by an I‑Kiribati speaker yet. Every line was drafted by a computer and is marked unchecked until someone who speaks the language confirms it under Add & verify. Treat it as a starting point, not a reference.
Six things that make it readable
Kiribati is written in Latin letters and spelled consistently. Once these are in your ear you can pronounce any word on the page, including ones you don't know.
Drill
Pulls from whichever category you last chose under Look up.
Add a word, or confirm one
This is the part that matters, and it works with no signal at all. Everything you save is kept on this device; when the app can reach the shared store it syncs too. Entries a speaker confirms make every translation built from them better — that is how the engine gets more trustworthy over time rather than staying where I left it.
Still missing
Phrases a care team needs, with no translation yet. Filling these in is the single most useful thing a speaker can do here.
Teach it to hear you
A neural engine is being trained now on whole sentences spoken by I-Kiribati people — not single words, and with your voice alongside the text. That is the part no dictionary can supply and no one outside these islands can do. It needs a signal, unlike everything else here, so do it when you have one.
Carry it off the island
Collected entries live on this device. Export them to a file — or copy the text — to merge into the main list later, or to hand to whoever is building the next version.