Mother-Tongue

Mother-Tongue solves a problem that 700 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa face every day. Developers across Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and the continent think in their native language but must code in English. This invisible cognitive barrier slows them down, causes mistakes, and puts a hidden ceiling on what they can build. Mother-Tongue uses IBM Bob's full repository context awareness to let developers describe what they want to build in Twi — their mother tongue — and receive professional, internationally standard JavaScript code that fits their existing codebase perfectly. The pipeline: a developer speaks or types in Twi. Google Translate converts the Twi to English. IBM Watsonx.ai Granite refines it into a precise technical specification. IBM Bob reads the entire target codebase and generates code that matches the exact patterns, functions, and conventions already in the project. The explanation is translated back to Twi so the developer fully understands what was built — in their own language. IBM Bob is central and irreplaceable. Because Bob reads the entire codebase first, the generated code calls existing functions directly, follows the same naming conventions, and integrates without modification. This is not generic code generation — it is context-aware development in your mother tongue.