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A language recording project
Wikimédia France
Lingua Libre
2020
Coolest Tool
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in the category
Diversity
Information
Website
lingualibre.org
Started in
2015
Statistics
Recordings
+1,400,000
Languages
+315
Speakers
+3,800
Contact
Wikimedia France
Adélaïde Calais WMFr
Rémy Gerbet WMFr
Community
Yug
Pamputt
Lingua Libre
is a project developed by
Wikimédia France
, which aims to build a collaborative, multilingual, audiovisual corpus under free licence in order to:
Expand knowledge
about
languages and
in
languages in an audiovisual way on the web, on Wikimedia projects and outside;
Support the development
of
online language communities
— particularly those of poorly endowed, minority, regional, oral or signed languages — in order to help communities accessing online information and to ensure the vitality of the languages of these communities.
Why?
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The
lack of diversity and orality
in Wikimedia projects and on the web in general limit the ability of Internet users to communicate and contribute online to various web platforms where they cannot find content and communities sharing their language. Among the regional minority languages that are oral or signed, they threaten in particular the poorly endowed ones, many of which are currently in danger of extinction and for whom inclusion on the web is a major challenge and opportunity. Indeed, of the
7,000
languages in existence today, it is estimated that
only 2,500
will survive to the next century and
only 250
(less than 5%!) will make their
digital ascent
, a factor which is yet essential for their vitality. Current initiatives by linguists and activists to document and share data, resources and content online in endangered languages do not directly contribute to the development of a digitally-ascendant linguistic community of Internet users, and thus
remain limited in their impact
Lingua Libre
aims to make up for this lack of support by offering an online solution for
mass recording
, leading to the publication of a collaborative multilingual audiovisual corpus under free licence, whose aim is to
document
and to
revitalize
languages by triggering the contribution of new language communities on Lingua Libre and then outside.
How?
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Lingua Libre
is a tool that allows to record a large number of words in a few hours (up to
1,000 words/hour
with a clean word list and an experienced user). It
automatizes
the classic procedure for recording and adding audio-visual pronunciation files onto Wikimedia projects. Once the recording is done, the platform automatically uploads clean, well cut, well named and apps-friendly audio files, directly to
Wikimedia Commons
Classic audio recording workflow
Audio recording workflow with Lingua Libre
Established partnerships
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The
DGLFLF
: (General Delegation for the French language and the languages of France), part of the Ministry of Culture in France
Lo Congrès
: The permanent congress of the Occitan language
The
Maison de la Nouvelle-Calédonie à Paris
: (House of New Caledonia in Paris), which represents New Caledonia in Metropolitan France
The
OLCA
: Office for the Language and Cultures of Alsace and Moselle
Plateforme Atlas
: an association aiming to promote and facilitate access to culture, humanities and arts, in any language (
contact
Initiatives involving Lingua Libre
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Do you have a project that uses LinguaLibre? Link it below to celebrate itǃ
Recordingː
University of French Guiana
WikiLinguila
Languages of Cameroon
Odia project
Workshops by a library in Strasbourg during the European Heritage Days 2021-2023
Using the corpus of recordings for other projects:
SRPP: Using Crowd-Sourced Data and Automatic Alignment to Investigate the Phonetics and Phonology of Less-Resourced Languages
Community
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Interactive map of
Lingua Libre speakers
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To join us, simply
add your name in the volunteers list
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Akwugo
Àncilu
Afraidgrenade
Ardzun
Arianit
Atibrarian
Awangba Mangang
Cnyirahabihirwe123
Dadrik
Darafsh
DenisdeShawi
Dnshitobu
DSwissK
Eavq
Eihel
Elfix
Em-mustapha
Ériugena
Gangaasoonu
Guilhelma
Inosham
Jesedmateo
Joris Darlington Quarshie
Lea.fakauvea
Lepticed7
Lior7
Lyokoï
Manjiro5
Marreromarco
Mecanautes
Ndahiro derrick
Nehaoua
Nskjnv
Olaf
Olugold
Pamputt
Poemat
Poslovitch
Salgo60
Sriveenkat
Swarabakti
Titodutta
Tohaomg
TrueLinguist
Unuaiga
V Bhavya
Vis M
WikiLucas00
Yug
Arcuscloud
Celetex
Akbarali
Sayvhior
Pohewatanga
King ChristLike
ARI
Core team
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Core team members (2024) with deep knowledge of the project, they can guide you to resources and know-how best suited for your action.
Volunteer members are involved almost daily on LinguaLibre.
Yug
Facilitator / community liaison, events speaker, developer, bot master, SignIt, Github. Administrator on Lingualibre.org.
Pushkar7077
Lingua Libre Django's lead developer.
WikiLucas00
Discord administrator. Bureaucrat on Lingualibre.org.
Ardzun
Indonesian languages project.
Recent staff
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Staff members at
Wikimedia France
and elsewhere equally do important work.
Xavier Cailleau WMFr
Facilitator / community liaison, events speaker, grants requests.
Michael Barbereau WMFr
Developer, servers manager.
Join the discussions
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Commons Chat Room
Discord Server
Phabricator
GitLab
See also
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SignIt
Supports
Global bot on Wikimedia projects
Community Resources and Partnerships/India Rapid Project/50K Malayalam Words:A Lingua Libre Audio Corpus Project
Lingua Libre
Lingualibre
Repositories
Lingua Libre organisation
Record Wizard
(aka Recording Studio)
Lingua Libre Bot
account
SPARQL2DATA
LanguagesGallery
NamesOfTheLand
Documentations
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Technical helps
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Help:SPARQL
series
Reports
Past Lingua Libre supports
Winter 2021-2022 Public Relations Campaign
2022/Phase 1#Approach
2022/Review
Surui workshop
Lingua Libre/Supports/Melody#10. langues régionales et minoritaires dans les autres pays
2024 Occitan whistle
2024's actions by Yug
(Graph:
Lingua Libre Django
GSoC24
GSoC25
(withdrawn)
2025/Phase 1 (draft)
2025/Phase 2
2025/Rapports
2026/Phase 1 (draft)
Referents
Github, Phabricator, Userscripts (Yug, WikiLucas00, Pamputt)
Bots (Pamputt, Lepticed7, Yug)
Onboarding (Yug, WikiLucas, Pamputt)
Events, Outreach (Yug, Xavier WMFR)
Reports (Yug)
Funding (Xavier WMFR, Yug)
SignIt
SignIt
Repositories
Record Wizard
(Recording Studio with video track)
Lingualibre/SignIt
(Firefox Web Extension)
Documentations
Minimal video recording tutorial for elegant signed videos
Reports
2022-09-16 :
2022/Phase 1
light diagnosis
2022-09-16 :
2022/Phase 2
volunteer coding report and detailed strategy
2023-04-25 :
2023/Phase 1
freelance coding report and learning patterns
2023-05-12 :
2023/Phase 2
outreach campaign challenges
2024-09+ :
2024/Phase 1 (draft)
GSoC24
Referents
Édouard Lopez
(concept design)
User:0x010C
(creator, developer)
Yug
(expansion, coordination)
Wikimedia Language Diversity
Global & multilingual
Active
Groups
Incubator
(2006 👩‍🎤)
Wikimedia Language Diversity Hub
(2021 👩‍🎤)
Wikimedia Language Diversity
(2012 👩‍🎤)
Small Wikipedia Community Sustainability
(2016 👩‍🎤)
Wiki for Minorities/Minori-Ties_Programme
(2023 👩‍🎤)
Contribution
Wikitongues
(2014 👩‍🎤)
LinguaLibre
(2016 👩‍🎤)
OpenSpeaks
Wikiversity
- 2017)
WikiKata
(2020 👩‍🎤)
WikiWomen Erasmus+ Project
(2021 👩‍🎤)
WikiTutur
(2024 👩‍🎤)
Sleepy
Oral knowledge
(2019
Missing Wikipedias
(❄)
Commons:WikiVoc
(2014 ❄)
Working Groups/Diversity
Inactive
Preservation
Teamwork of projects in languages with singular status
(2010, †)
Small Languages Outreach Wikiproject
(2012, †)
WikiLanguageSaver
(2009, †)
DialectWiki
(2008, †)
Learning
Wiki Language School
(2004, †)
Open School of Languages
(2007, †)
Wikilingo
(2007, †)
WikiVocab
(2010, †)
Wikilang
(2014, †)
Per region
Africa
Igbo Wikidata+languages lexemes project
WikiLinguila
African languages
Afrophonewikis
Sundanese language Wikipedia Revitalization Project
North America
Canadian Aboriginal Languages Wikipedia Coordination
Atikamekw knowledge, culture and language in Wikimedia projects
English WikiProject Native Languages of California
Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group
(WikiNAIL)
Wikimedia México/Lenguas de México
(Spanish)
South America
WikiMedistas Wayúu
(Colombia-Venezuela)
Quechua Voices
Asia
Javanese Language Wikipedia Revitalization Project 2012-2013
Promoting the South Asian languages projects
Promoting the Southeast Asian languages projects
Oceania
Noongarpedia
(South-west Australia)
Wikimedia Australia/Activities/Aboriginal Language Wikipedia
Europe
Sámi knowledge on Wikimedia projects
WikiProject Saami
Wikipedias in Russia's languages
ru
) - scope expansion, 2020-2023
Tools
Lingua Libre
– Wikimedia's rapid vocabulary recording app
Lingua Libre/SignIt
– Wikimedia France's Sign Language browser extension
Spell4Wiki
– audio recording mobile app
Minority Translate
– simplify translation work for small Wikipedias
Mobile audio upload app
(2012, †)
Small wiki toolkits
Wikitongues' Language Revitalization Toolkit
(35p)
Wikispeech
(TBC)
WDAudioLex
Wikidata:Lexica
Events
v:LangCamp 2012
langcamp.org
Celtic Knot Conference
2017 (Edinburgh, Scotland)
2018 (Aberystwyth, Wales)
2019 (Penryn, Cornwall)
2020 (online)
Artic 2021 (online)
2022 (online)
2024 (Waterford City, Ireland)
LinguaLibre:Events
ContribuLing 2021
2021 Hackathon
ContribuLing 2022
2022 Lingualibre-Surui workshop
report
2022 Hackathon
ContribuLing 2023
Others
Language Documentation and Archiving (
2022
2024
Pitabangan
(2024 👩‍🎤)
Grants
Fundings
Grants:Programs
(WMF)
Grants:Alternatives
(non-WMF)
Requests
Encuentro de Activistas Digitales de Lenguas Indígenas 2015 – Report
Encuentro Regional de Lenguas Indígenas Cauca 2017
LinguaLibre 2016 (
fr
LinguaLibre 2018
Atikamekw 2020–2021
LinguaLibre-Surui 2022
report
Grants:Project/Rapid/Language Diversity Hub and Wikitongues
(2022–2024)
Grants:Project/MSIG/WMNO/Building the Language Diversity Hub
(2023–2024)
GSoC24 LinguaLibre
GSoC24 SignIt
WikiTutur 2.0
Quechua Voices
WikiTutur 3.0
Collaborations
Existing
Cooperation between Wikimedia and Endangered Languages Project
en
Wikipedia WikiProject Endangered Languages
To explore
Endangered Languages Project
European language equality
and
European language grid
European language equality Network
Tatoeba.org
CommonVoice
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👩‍🎤 : project active right now
❄ : frozen/inactive project
† : dead, active period ended.
? : unknown, unclear.
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