Celtic Knot Conference 2017/Programme/CK112

Title: Lingua Libre: an interface for massive open audio recording.

Lecture Theatre 2 - University of Edinburgh Business School.

Date: 6 July 2017

Time: 3pm to 4pm.

Duration: 1 hour.

Venue: University of Edinburgh Business School - Lecture Theatre 2.

Speakers:

• Rémy Gerbet, Wikimedia France.

Overview of topic:
During the launch of the Langues de France project, the ability of minority language speakers to participate to a great extent in the written aspects of Wikimedia projects encouraged us to come up with a new way of contributing. The purpose of Lingua Libre is to realize records all around the world with a documentation useful for quality linguistic re-use thanks to city-accurate geolocation. Lingua Libre is an open and open-license platform and webapp which boosts the recording of mass of words or sentences into clean, well cut, well documented audio files. It is perfect to create small to large datasets of audio files. The session will include a demo / training for LinguaLibre. LinguaLibre.fr is the professional cloud system used by Wikimedia to swiftly record series of words or sentences into super clean, high quality audios. LinguaLibre is excellent for OpenData creation, languages teaching, and language conservation. Over 120.000 audios have been uploaded with this tool. It also allows you to record the words and voice of your grandma for ever. We will give a presentation of this tool and its many functionalities. We also would like to propose a recording session with some volunteers as a good opportunity to meet speakers of Celtic languages, hear and record them.

Notes: Etherpad link.

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