Abstract
How do we design technologies, places, and activities that increase the survival prospects of a threatened language? The answer begins and ends with people, especially those who speak the languages in question. Too often, technologies for capturing languages do not offer an effective value proposition that would encourage large-scale participation by linguistic minorities in documenting their languages. A case in point is the Aikuma mobile app for crowdsourcing oral language documentation. I discuss Aikuma before reporting new designerly approaches in the areas of storytelling and language learning. These new approaches address the same challenge as before, only with better value propositions, while promising to deliver language documentation as a byproduct.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Language Technologies for All (LT4All) |
| Subtitle of host publication | Enabling Language Diversity & Multilingualism Worldwide |
| Editors | Gilles Adda, Khalid Choukri, Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Sakriani Sakti |
| Place of Publication | Paris |
| Publisher | European Language Resources Association (ELRA) |
| Pages | 296-299 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 979-10-95546-33-7 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Event | International Conference Language Technologies for All - UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France Duration: 4 Dec 2019 → 6 Dec 2019 https://en.unesco.org/LT4All |
Conference
| Conference | International Conference Language Technologies for All |
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| Abbreviated title | LT4All |
| Country/Territory | France |
| City | Paris |
| Period | 4/12/19 → 6/12/19 |
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