Software designs and
prototypes
BOLD: Basic Oral Language Documentation
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Record a story, then...
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translate phrase-by-phrase, to create...
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a collection of transcriptions and translations
Learn more about BOLD
Basic oral language documentation,
by Will Reiman (2010)A scalable method for preserving oral literature from small languages,
by Steven Bird (2010)
Aikuma app: stories and translations
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Record a story, then...
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translate phrase-by-phrase, to create...
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a digital-audio Rosetta Stone
Learn more about Aikuma
Large-scale text collection for unwritten languages,
by Florian Hanke & Steven Bird (2013)Aikuma: A mobile app for collaborative language documentation,
by Steven Bird, Florian Hanke, Oliver Adams & Haejoong Lee (2014)Collecting bilingual audio in remote indigenous communities,
by Steven Bird, Lauren Gawne, Katie Gelbart & Isaac McAlister (2014)
Try LIG-Aikuma
Aikuma has been further developed at the Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble by Elodie Gauthier and Laurent Besacier: https://lig-aikuma.imag.fr/
Zahwa: talking about food
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While preparing food, take photos...
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then record a talking slideshow...
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then share your video recipe
Learn more about Zahwa
Documenting recipes,
by Amina Mettouchi, Mat Bettinson & Steven Bird (2017)Developing a suite of mobile applications for collaborative language documentation,
by Mat Bettinson & Steven Bird (2017)Image-Gesture-Voice: A Web component for eliciting speech,
by Mat Bettinson & Steven Bird (2018)Designing mobile applications for endangered languages,
by Steven Bird (2018)