Grants:IdeaLab/Mobile audio upload app - indigenous languages
Mobile audio upload app - indigenous languages
many languages may well be lost, if not transcribed and translated, before elder speakers pass on. many programs exist, but are proprietary, and less portable.
created on16:23, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
Project ideaEdit
What is the problem you're trying to solve?Edit
- increase open source recordings of endangered languages.
- Cooperation between Wikimedia and Endangered Languages Project
other grantsEdit
Grant award of $101,501 (US) to a similar project, Aug. 2012Edit
- "Mark Liberman of the University of Pennsylvania is piloting a project to use mobile telephones to collect larger amounts of data on undocumented endangered languages than would ever be possible through usual fieldwork."
- "NEH and NSF Award $4.5 Million to Preserve Languages Threatened With Extinction". National Endowment for the Humanities. 2012-08-09. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
2013 Android application, Aikuma, for Internet Archive, described as a "Digital Rosetta Stone"Edit
- "Android App for Language Documentation". The Rosetta Project. Retrieved 2013-12-21.
This project aims to collect for the Internet Archive.[1] "Aikuma, an Android app for preserving the last words of the world’s endangered languages, has won a team of researchers at the University of Melbourne the Grand Prize in the Open Source Software World Challenge 2013."[2]
- Sponsors
- The Australian Research Council, the US National Science Foundation, and the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Technologies:
- speech analysis, translation algorithms, and user interface design
- Cooperation between Wikimedia and Endangered Languages Project
What is your solution?Edit
- Works with Android and iPhone
- Records .mp3 (possible audio) converts to .ogg
- Pull up Wikipedia article on phone, click "Record audio about this article", enter "Name of language"
- Click "Upload this article"
- Appears on article page, "Audio and video links associated with this article"
Project goalsEdit
- - phone app to record indigenous languages, which links each file to a wikipedia article, for community use
- - process to upload of recordings to commons, with links to wikipedia articles
- - process to link to recordings in commons, with a link from each file
Get involvedEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "Preserving Endangered Languages using Aikuma Android App". 2013-06-05. Retrieved 2013-12-21.
- ↑ Rahilly, Annie (2013-12-09). "Digital Rosetta Stone wins software challenge". Retrieved 2013-12-21.