Living heritage × responsible artificial intelligence
GnawAI is a research and product initiative exploring how technology can document Gnawa recordings, connect their histories and preserve the provenance of every contribution.
Explore the prototype ↓Explainable by design
More than recognition.
Functional demonstrator
All records and scores below are fictional. They validate the experience before any authorised cultural material is integrated.
Record a short excerpt. GnawAI checks the real audio signal locally in your browser; the recording is not uploaded or stored.
Recognition status: microphone functional · reference-song corpus not connected yet.Pilot corpus · Fictional record
The method
The first phase focuses on a small, explicitly authorised corpus. No public scraping, no hidden training and no cultural claim without a source.
Every piece of information keeps its source, contributor and conditions of use.
A prediction remains a hypothesis until it is reviewed by a legitimate contributor.
Artists and knowledge holders help decide what may be documented, trained on or shared.
Built with the community
GnawAI will not collect, train on or publish cultural material without appropriate permission. Its governance is designed to give artists, archives and knowledge holders meaningful control—including correction, restriction and withdrawal.
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