Haiket offers eligible users across Europe the option to message people on WhatsApp directly as part of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).

• Speech recognition
• Chat and messaging

"the first frontier-quality, open-weight text-to-speech model designed specifically for enterprise use." - VentureBeat

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

Simply record your thoughts, and our tool will instantly transform your voice note into a unique, professional letter to your MP - ready to send in seconds.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

UK Pathways to Work Response Website that lets people tell their story by voice

• Newspeak House

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Communicating with the government

AI-powered civic engagement platform reconnecting people and power — one voice at a time.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

This project provides a modular pipeline for downloading, transcribing, cleaning, and preparing audio/video recordings into readable, structured text. It’s designed with a local-first philosophy, giving you full control over your data at every stage.

• Speech recognition
• Tech for your meetings

aeneas is a Python/C library and a set of tools to automagically synchronize audio and text (aka forced alignment)

• General purpose open source tools
• Speech recognition

Record, reflect, report: At lightspeed

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

An AI project uses natural language processing to identify and neutralize hate speech on community radios in eastern DRC, enhancing social cohesion and stability in conflict-affected areas by providing reliable information through adapted radio content.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• hate speech
• peace

• Media and social media analysis
• Speech recognition
• Natural Language Processing

Minute is a secure AI transcription service that produces customisable summaries in the formats that public servants need.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Speech recognition

Let participants record conversations, we transcribe and help you analyse it in minutes..

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Argument and transparency in public debate

• Quality education
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

• local

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Government transparency

Discover the modern engagement platform powered by natural language AI to help you gather feedback, manage your data and understand what is being said.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

LocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.

• YouTube

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Archives

We make parliamentary debates more transparent and accessible

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Transparency and accessibility in council action; videos, transcripts, voting records, and legislation -- all searchable under a single website.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Speech recognition

We make local policy information accessible and byte-sized, with a weekly email of your community board’s most recent meeting highlights and transcript data.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Human-Led + AI-Supported Listening

• apps

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

Loomio is a flexible decision-making tool that helps you create a more engaged and collaborative culture, build trust and coordinate action

• coop

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Group decision making