Qoder Hackathon · Singapore 2026
TaleLah
Everyday moments.
Mother-tongue magic.
🛠 Built with Qoder Alibaba Cloud Qwen
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Vinoth · Sibi · Kavya
Where this started

I have four-year-old
twins.

We speak Tamil at home. So I thought we were fine.

Vinoth · co-founder
What I noticed

They speak Tamil. But they think in English.

What they say at home
சாப்பாடுsappadu · food
தண்ணிthanni · water
வாvaa · come
What they learn at school
bigger & smaller
the pattern
why does it…?

Every new idea arrives in English. The mother tongue stops growing with them.

And it isn't just my house

Homes where English is spoken most often

2020
48.3%
2025
58.1%
↑ +9.8 points in five years — and higher among young children
Singapore Dept. of Statistics · Census 2020 & General Household Survey 2025
Why another lessons app can't fix it

School gives lessons. Only home gives use.

More drills is more of exactly what already isn't working. A language survives when a child has a reason to speak it after school.

So we built
TaleLah

Turn today's moment into tonight's mother-tongue conversation.

A parent captures one real thing their child did. Five minutes later the family is talking — in Tamil, Chinese or Malay.

How it works

Thirty seconds of a parent's time.

✍️"He built an MRT
out of blocks"
STEP 1
Capture
Type, speak or snap a photo.
4 pages · Tamil
ready to read
STEP 2
Approve
Nothing reaches the child unseen.
🎙️சிவப்பு ரயில்!
STEP 3
Child speaks
Mina listens for one real line.
👨‍👩‍👧Hand the phone
to family
STEP 4
Family takes over
The screen switches itself off.
Live

Demo

  • 01A real moment in — a whole book out, in seconds
  • 02The child says a Tamil line and the story answers
  • 03It ends by handing the phone to the family
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The part that isn't a story app

Every other AI story app wants more screen time.

Ours gives it back.

Off-screen mission

The screen goes quiet and waits while the child does something real in the room.

Family handoff

One prompt, one big button — a parent or grandparent finishes the story out loud.

How three of us built it in two weeks

We didn't write features. We wrote specs.

📄/specs
agents · languages · safety
WRITTEN BY US
The spec
Qoder Quest Mode
plans & builds it
BUILT BY QODER
The quest
📱A running app
families can use
SHIPPED
The product
Every agent, every language and every safety rule is a spec file — not code.
The architecture

Six agents, one pipeline.

1Moment LensReads the photo or note.Qwen-VL
2Learning PlannerPicks one speaking goal.Qwen
3Book AuthorDesigns the whole book.per-language
4Language GuardianChecks every native line./specs/lang
5Family VoiceNarrates & hands off.CosyVoice·Sarvam
6Growth CoachRemembers, never scores.Qwen

A safety gate sits between the pipeline and the child — nothing reaches child mode without passing it and the parent.

The proof

Swap one spec file. Get a different language.

Language pack
ta-SG
தம்பி பச்சை இலையில் உட்கார்ந்திருக்கிறது.
re-run
Language pack
ms-SG
Adik sedang duduk di atas daun hijau.
$ git status → nothing to commit, working tree clean
Under the hood

The best model for each language.

JobTamilChineseMalay
Story writingSarvam-105BQwen-MaxQwen-Max
Photo understandingQwen-VL-Max — all three
Child speechSaarikaParaformerGoogle STT
NarrationBulbulCosyVoiceGoogle TTS
IllustrationsWanx — character-locked across every page
Who it's for

Singapore families with 4–8 year olds.

தமிழ்
Tamil
Written natively, not translated. Our fully tested path.
中文
Chinese
Simplified characters with pinyin for the parent.
Melayu
Malay
Everyday Bahasa, with meaning where it helps.
A fourth language is a new spec file — not a rebuild.
The team
V
Vinoth
Tech
S
Sibi
Tech
K
Kavya
Product

One of us has four-year-old twins at home. That's not a coincidence — it's the product.

Thank you

Capture once, help everywhere.

And bring the language home.

🌐 talelah.com 🛠 Built with Qoder
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