Duolingo style Tabla Practice App

Hey All,

For some background, I am an Developer and researcher with a specific interest in Music Information Retrieval. I have also played the tabla for over 11 years now. I wanted to gauge the Tabla community for how interested teachers, learners, and students would be in a comprehensive Tabla app designed for Asynchronus learning, and practice. The app trained on datasets that contain over 28,000 strokes, and use 4-way tabla bol classification to verify playing accuracy (using MFCCs, central spectroid etc.) In more simple terms, it puts bols into 4 categories, and uses context, as well as frequency to determine if the right bol was played.
Format wise, it is very beginner friendly and is designed as a duolingo Style Tabla Practice app.

Notice:
THIS APP IS NOT INTENDED TO REPLACE TABLA TEACHERS WHATSOEVER.
Although bols can be played and players can practice from videos within the app, along with AI recognition of playing, no AI or tool can EVER replace the expertise of a Tabla teacher. It is a great starting stage for beginners to learn the basics, and will hopefully encourage more people to play Tabla, but again by no means is it nor can it be a replacement for human teachers. This tool is designed to aid tabla teachers to assign work, and give out asynchronus work while encouraging players to practice with feedback in that work.

LAUNCH:
Our expected launch date is September 15th, 2026. (Updates will be posted on all socials)

Paywall:
We will always have a free tier service for our app. However, the AI tool requires a significant amount of API usage, and we therefore may need to set up a subscription cost for the AI tool use. However, I have come here to seek support for funding, and wanted to see if people are interested enough to crowdsource this process.

Profit:
This app does not seek to make a profit, as revenue will be distributed only to cover costs and expand the usage limits for users.

Crowdsourcing:
If you are interested in supporting this project, please reach out to the email below. Any funding will directly go towards API operation costs, and will greatly help usage limits for users.

Questions for the community:

1. Would you use something like this for your own practice, or would you rather just record yourself and listen back?
2. If you're a teacher, would you consider recommending something like this to students for between-lesson practice?
3. What thekas or compositions would you want covered first?
4. What's your biggest frustration with practicing tabla without a teacher present?

Contacts:
Instagram: MyTablaTeacher

Youtube: MyTablaTeacher

Email: MyTablaTeacher@gmail.com

Feel free to ask us any questions on this thread, or reach out to us at the contacts above.