Afaan Oromo has 41 million speakers. The frontier models don’t sound native. We gave ElevenLabs, Google, and OpenAI the same script we gave our model. Sound on. @kalBuilds
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@kalBuilds
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274subscribers
+98 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1004436689385 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @kalBuilds |
| Created | Between 1 June 2026 and 23 July 2026 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/kalBuilds |
Technology — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 23 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 96% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
This channel’s posts match, word for word or near enough, posts on 1 other registered channel, found by comparing text fingerprints across every channel on the register. That matching has been checked by hand against the live Telegram pages and found reliable — 0 wrong of 45 pairs re-read.
Which channel, if either, published first is deliberately not shown. The same hand-check found that reading wrong 18 of 45 times — 60%, no better than a coin flip — because it depends on how deep our own crawl happened to reach into each channel’s history, not on when the content was actually first posted. This list is ordered by subscriber count, the same as every other listing on this site, never by which channel we think came first. Word-for-word matching has several ordinary explanations besides copying — a channel mirroring itself, an unattributed repost, or two channels independently repeating the same wire story — and this measurement cannot tell those apart. How this is measured.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Sept 2026, 17:17 | 274 | +5 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 06:18 | 269 | +32 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 05:19 | 237 | +1 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 21:36 | 236 | +24 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 00:14 | 212 | +28 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 08:01 | 184 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 05:43 | 184 | +8 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 14:05 | 176 | first reading |
18 posts held, back to 23 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 18 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
86 reactions across 15 posts, in 6 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 44.2% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 38 | 44.2% | |
| 🔥 | 26 | 30.2% | |
| 😁 | 9 | 10.5% | |
| 💯 | 8 | 9.30% | |
| 🤯 | 4 | 4.65% | |
| 🎉 | 1 | 1.16% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 15 of the 18 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 86 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 18 most recent posts we hold, published 23 July 2026 to 6 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Afaan Oromo has 41 million speakers. The frontier models don’t sound native. We gave ElevenLabs, Google, and OpenAI the same script we gave our model. Sound on. @kalBuilds
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I asked @b1n1yamBuilds to take pictures at the Cursor AI Hackathon, but he spent the whole day avoiding every camera. I had to wait for the 1hr+ ETV coverage and pause through it just to get a few screenshots of him 😭 @Kalbuilds
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One startup program I think is worth applying for is NVIDIA Inception. We’ve been part of it while building Addis AI, and it’s made a real difference for us. It gives you access to cloud and GPU credits, technical resources, training, and partner benefits that are usually hard to get on your own. To apply, your startup should be less than 10 years old, have a working website, and have at least one developer on the …
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A voice carries more than words. It carries where we come from, the stories we grew up with, the people we love, and the feeling of home. This is what we want our technology to preserve and carry forward. ኢትዮጵያዊነት በፈገግታ ይታያል፣ በድምፅ ይሰማል። ድምፃችን። ድምፃችሁ። @addisassistantai
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This made me emotional the first time I saw it. The smiles, the children, the stories, the voices. It feels less like a product and more like a piece of home. So proud of the team behind this. @kalBuilds
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We are looking for Sidama, Tigrinya, and Wolaita speakers. If you are interested in contributing, join our Discord: 📱https://discord.gg/BqDxzkX3 @b1n1yamBuilds
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@software_guy did it again! Check out the flutter SDK for Addis AI. God i love this community! @b1n1yamBuilds
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ቋንቋ እንደ ተፈጥሮ የራሱ የሆነ ሪትምና እስትንፋስ አለው። Language, like nature, has its own rhythm and breath. Made with Addis AI (Voice: Yohannes) 😊addisassistant.com #contentCreation@kalBuilds
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Most of you picked content creation and customer support, so I’m putting together a few demos around both. But I’m still curious about the 8 people who chose “something completely different” What are you trying to build? @kalBuilds
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Same words. Four voices. Which one would you use? @kalBuilds
Wish I could’ve been there today. This looks so good. Would’ve loved to see what the teams were building on top of Addis AI.
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Quite a lot of local solutions being built on top of Addis AI, solving real problems. Honestly, this feels special.
Showing the 12 most recent of 18 posts we hold for @kalBuilds. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Named by 5 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
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Names
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A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
@kalBuilds named 1 handle that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
Most of these may never have existed as a live channel at all. A handle a channel names can be a typo, an aspirational name nobody registered, or a channel that was already gone before this one ever mentioned it. Unless a row below is marked evidenced, all we know is that it references a handle that is not a live channel today — not that anything “died”. How this is measured.
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 12 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Kal” (@kalBuilds), 274 subscribers as measured 12 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/kalBuilds.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.