Talks

Steven Bird

Preserving Unwritten Languages

Recorded live on Nov 10, 02014 at The Interval at Long Now

Steven Bird is a computational linguist and technologist at Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute. In this discussion on digital language preservation at The Interval, he showcased his still-in-development Aikuma app — a tool for recording speech in a number of unwritten langauges for preservation. He ran a hands-on demonstration of the app, facilitated a discussion of some thorny issues it raised, and shared some of his ingenious solutions.

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