Requirements and motivations of low-resource speech synthesis for language revitalization

A Pine, D Wells, N Brinklow, P Littell… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
This paper describes the motivation and development of speech synthesis systems for the
purposes of language revitalization. By building speech synthesis systems for three …

Recent Advances in Technologies for Resource Creation and Mobilization in Language Documentation

AL Berez-Kroeker, S Gabber… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Language documentation as a subfield of linguistics has arisen over the past roughly two
and a half decades more or less simultaneously with the widespread availability of …

[HTML][HTML] Speech generation for indigenous language education

A Pine, E Cooper, D Guzmán, E Joanis… - Computer Speech & …, 2025 - Elsevier
As the quality of contemporary speech synthesis improves, so too does the interest from
language communities in develo** text-to-speech (TTS) systems for a variety of real-world …

[PDF][PDF] Indigenous language technologies: Anti-colonial oases in a colonizing (digital) world

NT Brinklow - WINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous …, 2021 - journals.uvic.ca
Abstract Language technologies are an increasingly common part of daily life for people
around the world. Millions of users per day access services like Google Translate and …

[PDF][PDF] Speech generation for indigenous language education

RK Kazantsevaa, R Kuhna, S Larkina… - Computer Speech & …, 2024 - docs.everyvoice.ca
The vast majority of the world's languages are unable to follow in the footsteps of existing
resource-intensive pathways to building text-to-speech (TTS) systems. But, as the quality of …

[PDF][PDF] The Indigenous Languages Technology (Ilt) Project at the National Research Council Of Canada, And Its Context

R Kuhn - … Technologies and Language Diversity Tecnologies de …, 2022 - linguapax.org
Recent decades have seen the creation of hundreds of Indigenous language revitalization
and reclamation projects across Canada. Most are located inside Indigenous communities; …

It needs to be said: exploring the lived realities of the Grandmothers and Aunties of Métis scholarship

L Forsythe - 2023 - mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca
Through visiting with 13 self-identifying Métis women born between 1949 and 1969 whose
work began to appear in the late 1970s and raising our awareness of their contributions …

Decolonial Thinking of Digital Media Inequalities and Indigenous Language Marginalisation of the Global South from the South African Context

FO Makananise - Decolonising Digital Media and Indigenisation of …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Digital inequality encompasses variations in skills, resources, and access required for
individuals to utilise the internet and digital media platforms like social media, YouTube, and …

Indigenous Language Revitalization with Stories and Games

A Abedjooy, F Hirbodvash, M Ebrahimi - Encyclopedia of Computer …, 2024 - Springer
Hologram can record and reconstruct or playback an optical wavefront on the hologram
plane. It uses interference between two waves, an object wave from the object to be …

Large Language Model Translation of Indigenous Languages

C Bishop, X Zhu, K Rudie - 2024 IEEE Canadian Conference …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The territory known as Canada is home to an incredible diversity of Indigenous languages.
Before settler contact, it was estimated that there were anywhere between 300 and 450 …