Aikuma
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 Aikuma | |
| Original author(s) | Steven Bird, Florian Hanke |
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| Developer(s) | The Aikuma Development Team |
| Initial release | March 2013 |
| Preview release | 0.8
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| Repository | |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Android |
| License | Apache License |
| Website | 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).
Name
Aikuma means "meeting place" in Usarufa, a Papuan language where this software was first used in 2012.[3]
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."[4]
Aikuma and its modified version (Lig-Aikuma) have been used for collecting substantial quantities of audio in remote indigenous villages.[5]
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.[6]
References
- ^ "Aikuma homepage". Retrieved 2015-04-24.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Aikuma homepage, FAQ.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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. [1]
- ^ "Lig-Aikuma Forge". Archived from the original on 2017-01-13. Retrieved 2017-01-11.
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