Grants:IdeaLab/Mobile audio upload app - indigenous languages

Idealab

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.

idea creator• Slowking4

advisor• Djembayz

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created on16:23, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Project idea

What is the problem you're trying to solve?

• increase open source recordings of endangered languages.
• Cooperation between Wikimedia and Endangered Languages Project

other grants

Grant award of $101,501 (US) to a similar project, Aug. 2012

"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"

• "Android App for Language Documentation". The Rosetta Project. Retrieved 2013-12-21. 

This project aims to collect for the Internet Archive. "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."

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

• Google Endangered Languages Collaboration

• w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia

What is your solution?

• 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 goals

1. - phone app to record indigenous languages, which links each file to a wikipedia article, for community use
2. - process to upload of recordings to commons, with links to wikipedia articles
3. - process to link to recordings in commons, with a link from each file

Endorsements

• Let's make it easy and practical to support this linguistic history and science. econterms (talk) 22:28, 3 July 2015 (UTC)