An AI copy desk for a Telugu daily published from seven print centres
Reporters drop story files on an FTP server each evening; the system ingests the whole folder tree, corrects and improves the Telugu, and writes enhanced files back in the exact structure the press already uses — with every write gated on a human sub-editor.
Client: Mana Telangana · Telangana, India · Status: live
The challenge
A Telugu daily publishing from seven print centres across roughly ten edition zones had sub-editors opening every incoming story by hand — fixing grammar and spelling, checking risk, and pasting into the page. The work is repetitive, it happens under deadline every single evening, and it does not scale with edition count.
What we built
We built a copy desk that ingests an entire FTP folder tree at once and processes every story automatically — Telugu grammar correction, spelling correction, sentence improvement and translation operations — then presents the results to a sub-editor. Processing is automatic; writing is not. Enhanced files are written back only on human approval, in the identical structure the press already consumes.
Engineering highlights
- Purpose-written Telugu language operations, separated so grammar, spelling and style are never conflated into one destructive rewrite.
- Each prompt is constrained to preserve meaning, vocabulary, tone and register — correction, never paraphrase or translation.
- Proper-noun safety: unfamiliar words are treated as possible names, places, organisations or abbreviations rather than errors, and left alone when uncertain.
- An explicit bias toward leaving text unchanged when confidence is low, because a wrong "correction" in print is worse than an uncorrected typo.
- Bulk folder-tree ingestion matching the workflow the press already runs, so nothing downstream had to change.
- Human approval gate on every write — the system never publishes on its own.
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