The 1 Billion Voices Project
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“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” — English
Timtim Name: Rooted in the Caribbean & Africa
Born from the Creole and West African call-and-response — “Tim Tim — bwa chèch!” — TimTim.Live revives the griot tradition for a digital world. From Haitian storytellers to Nigerian poets, from Navajo elders to Māori singers, our platform transforms the act of telling into the act of preserving.
Anyone, Anywhere, Forever
Upload short oral videos, folktales, and songs. We subtitle, translate, and archive them so your voice lives on.
Three Simple Steps
- Record a tale, proverb, or song from your culture.
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Post on TimTim.Live with
#TimTimHeritageand tag@TimTim.Live. - Preserve it in the Global Oral Heritage Library.
The first 1,000 contributors are honored as Founding Cultural Ambassadors.
The Unwritten Archive
Our legacy is a permanent, open archive cataloged by language family, region, and culture; subtitled into many languages; and preserved using international metadata standards (Dublin Core, MARC21, PBCore 2.1) and OAIS-aligned processes.
- Multi-language subtitles & translation
- Scholarly metadata & discoverability
- Long-term digital preservation
Already trusted by storytellers across the world.
Enterprise as a Force for Memory
AdMerk Corp Inc. powers culture through profit:
- Executive staffing, insurance adjusting, property inspections
- 888 Craft Beer — every pint funds preservation
- Oselo Help Corp (501c3) — affordable housing & research
- TimTim.Live — digitizing humanity’s voice
From Story to Space
Surplus from TimTim.Live and 888 Craft Beer supports life-support research and spacecraft development — connecting Earth’s oldest stories with humanity’s newest frontiers.
Institutional Partnerships
We explore collaborations with UNESCO’s Memory of the World, the U.S. Library of Congress, WorldCat (OCLC), Europeana, and the Digital Public Library of America to ensure lifelong access and discovery.
Add Your Voice to the Library of Humanity
The next era of human history will not be written. It will be spoken. Join the waitlist for our Android and iOS apps today.