Aikuma

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).[3]

Aikuma
Original author(s)Steven Bird, Florian Hanke
Developer(s)The Aikuma Development Team
Initial releaseMarch 2013 (2013-03)
Preview release
0.8
Repository
Written inJava
Operating systemAndroid
LicenseApache License
Websiteaikuma.org

Name

Aikuma means "meeting place" in Usarufa, a Papuan language where this software was first used in 2012.[4]

History

Aikuma was 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."[5]

Aikuma and its modified version (Lig-Aikuma) have been used for collecting substantial quantities of audio in remote indigenous villages.[6]

A modified version of the app, called Lig-Aikuma, has been developed at the Université Grenoble Alpes (LIG laboratory) and implements new features such as elicitation of speech from text, images and videos.[7]

Similar Software

Lingua Libre is an online collaborative project and tool by the Wikimedia France association, which can be used as a tool for Language Preservation. Lingua Libre enables to record words, phrases, or sentences of any language, oral (audio recording) or signed (video recording). It is a highly efficient method to record endangered languages since up to 1000 words can be recorded per hour. All the content is under Free License, and speakers of minority languages are encouraged to record their own dialects.

References
  1. "Aikuma homepage". 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. Rahilly, Annie (2013-12-09). "Digital Rosetta Stone wins software challenge". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
  4. Aikuma homepage, FAQ.
  5. "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.
  6. 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.
  7. "Lig-Aikuma Forge". Archived from the original on 2017-01-13. Retrieved 2017-01-11.


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