Aikuma

Aikuma

Aikuma
Original author(s) Steven Bird, Florian Hanke
Developer(s) The Aikuma Development Team
Initial release March 2013 (2013-03)
Preview release
0.8
Repository github.com/aikuma/aikuma
Development status Active
Written in Java
Operating system Android
License Apache License
Website aikuma.org

Aikuma is an Android App for collecting speech recordings with time-aligned translations.[1] The app includes a text-free interface for consecutive interpretation, designed for users who are not literate.[2] The Aikuma won Grand Prize in the Open Source Software World Challenge (2013).

Aikuma has been developed with sponsorship from the National Science Foundation, including a $101,501 (US) project, "to use mobile telephones to collect larger amounts of data on undocumented endangered languages than would never be possible through usual fieldwork."[3]

Aikuma and its modified version (Lig-Aikuma) have been used for collecting substantial quantities of audio in remote indigenous villages.[4]

A modified version of the app, called Lig-Aikuma, has been developed at Grenoble Alpes University (LIG laboratory) and implements new features such as elicitation of speech from text, images and videos. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Aikuma Website". Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  2. ↑ Bird, S., Hanke, F.R., Adams, O., & Lee, H. (2014). Aikuma: A Mobile App for Collaborative Language Documentation. Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, pp. 1–5, Baltimore, USA.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ Blachon, D., Gauthier, E., Besacier, L., Kouarata, G-N., Adda-Decker, M. and Rialland, A. (2016). Parallel Speech Collection for Under-resourced Language Studies Using the Lig-Aikuma Mobile Device App. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
  5. ↑ "Lig-Aikuma Forge".


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