Lig-Aikuma recording speech

Lig-AIkuma is an improved version of the initial application (Aikuma) developed by Steven Bird and colleagues. Features were added to the initial app in order to facilitate the collection of parallel speech data in line with the requirements of a French-German research project (BULB - Breaking the Unwritten Language Barrier). The resulting app, called Lig-Aikuma, runs on various mobile phones and tablets and proposes a range of different speech collection modes (recording, respeaking, translation and elicitation). Lig-AIkuma's improved features include a smart generation and handling of speaker metadata as well as respeaking and parallel audio data mapping. It was used for field data collections in Congo-Brazzaville resulting in a total of over 100 hours of speech.