Aikuma

Aikuma

Aikuma
Original author(s)	Steven Bird, Florian Hanke
Developer(s)	The Aikuma Development Team
Initial release	March 2013
Preview release	0.8
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 has been used for collecting substantial quantities of audio in remote indigenous villages.^[4]

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.