Aikuma
Aikuma is an Android app for collecting speech recordings with time-aligned translations. The app includes a text-free interface for consecutive interpretation, designed for users who are not literate. The Aikuma won Grand Prize in the Open Source Software World Challenge.
Name
Aikuma means "meeting place" in Usarufa, a Papuan language where this software was first used in 2012.History
Aikuma was developed with sponsorship from the National Science Foundation, including a $101,501 project, "to use mobile telephones to collect larger amounts of data on undocumented endangered languages than would never be possible through usual fieldwork."Aikuma and its modified version have been used for collecting substantial quantities of audio in remote indigenous villages.
A modified version of the app, called Lig-Aikuma, has been developed at the Université Grenoble Alpes and implements new features such as elicitation of speech from text, images and videos.