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Built for a clientAugust 2026

SapinSapin AI

The public site for a Philippine-language AI initiative — including a demo you can speak into, in the browser.

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Built for
SapinSapin AI, an open initiative building AI for Philippine languages
My role
Designer & Front-End Developer
When
August 2026

The situation

The initiative's work was published in a technical catalogue that only researchers could read. It needed a public face that a funder, a journalist or a curious visitor could understand, with figures that never drifted out of date.

What I built

I designed and built the site, with a live demo that recognises speech and reads text aloud in ten Philippine languages, straight from the browser. Every figure on the page is pulled from the initiative's live catalogue each time the site is rebuilt, so the numbers cannot quietly go stale. Where the catalogue does not state something, the page says so rather than guessing.

Designer and front-end developer, August 2026. Founded by Tim Santos; my scope was the public site and its demo.

What it lets people do

  • Speak into the page and see it transcribed, in ten Philippine languages
  • Hear text read back aloud in those same languages
  • Read figures that are re-pulled from the live catalogue on every deploy
  • Use it in light or dark mode, with animation reduced if your device asks for that

Under the hood

The tools this is built with. You do not need to know any of them to use it — open one if you are curious what it does.

If you're considering working together

How a project actually goes

No jargon, no long contract to decode, and no stage where you are asked to approve something you cannot picture.

  1. 01

    We talk about the problem

    Not the software — the problem. What is slow, what gets forgotten, what people keep having to redo by hand. Usually one call is enough to see the shape of it.

  2. 02

    I write down what I heard

    In plain language, before any building starts, so you can correct me while it is still cheap to correct. You approve it or you don't.

  3. 03

    You see it early and often

    Working pieces, not screenshots or promises. If something is wrong, you say so while there is still time to change it.

  4. 04

    It goes live and stays supported

    Hosting, domain and setup handled. The Valley O'Ville site has been running since 2023 — I don't disappear after launch.

Have something in mind?

Tell me what is not working. If I'm not the right person for it, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.

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