ACORNS

[Andre Cramblit]

ACORNS Overview

http://www.sou.edu/cs/harvey/acorn/acorns.htm



The ACORNS project has the purpose of supporting language  
revitalization efforts of Native American tribes. The name, [AC] 
quisition [O]f [R]estored [N]ative [S]peech is in honor of the tribes  
of Northern California and Southern Oregon where the Acorn is a  
central part of the traditional life.

The current version allows language instructors and students to  
easily prepare and execute files containing language lessons.  
Presently, the software only supports Picture and Sound Lessons. We  
anticipate many other kinds of lessons as the software matures. These  
additional lesson types will support state-of-the-art facilities such  
as speech recognition.

The ACORNS project is a long term effort involving both faculty and  
students, in cooperation with local tribes.

The author of the original program is Dan Harvey from Southern Oregon  
University, harveyd at sou.edu. We appreciate your comments and feedback.



The software is intuitive and requires minimal technical training.  
Each file contains a series of lessons that link together through use  
of mouse clicks. The software is open source and can be freely used  
for non-commercial purposes. It conforms to best practice criteria  
for working with linguistic data, in that it supports industry  
standard export and import facilities.


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André Cramblit: andre.p.cramblit.86 at alum.dartmouth.org is the  
Operations Director Northern California Indian Development Council  
NCIDC (http://www.ncidc.org) is a non-profit that meets the  
development needs of American Indians

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