[RNLD] Announcing Aikuma-NG

[Mat Bettinson]

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Many list-members will no doubt have heard of the Aikuma mobile phone app.
Aikuma NG is the evolution of this project. The software is aimed at
laypersons, offering the ability to record or import audio recordings,
respeak or translate them (BOLD-like methodology), record metadata for the
session and to annotate/transcribe the audio (from source or secondary
recordings), and export to common caption formats (WebVTT and SRT). All
files are stored locally and there's a backup and restore feature.
There's plenty of resources for experts. Aikuma-NG is intended to represent
a class of software that empowers communities to record, enrich and share
records of language, with only minimal training.

Aikuma-NG is a Chrome App. All you need is the Chrome browser to run it, so
it's multi-platform and requires no further dependencies. It installs
locally like a native app and runs off line. It can be downloaded in
moments from the Chrome Web Store:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aikuma-ng/mkcflkabncgflgkbagmafecnligbfkfg

The app automatically updates with version increases, just like other
Chrome Apps. The total installed size is less than 10MB and will run on
very low-end computers.

The software is in beta. It's currently localised into English and Chinese
(simplified and traditional). The documentation is in need of improvement.
Aikma is based exclusively on web-technologies and we hope it can also
represent a model for sustainable tool development in the linguistic genre.

Currently Aikuma needs a larger screen to operate, so a tablet is the
smallest practical device but hasn't been tested on anything except desktop
computers so far.

On the Aikuma-NG development radar; annotating from video sources, further
export options, and an array of online connected features such as sharing
to a web service so that material can be embedded into blogs and social
media platforms with attractive functional playback of media and
annotations. Other suggestions are welcome but please bare in mind the
intended audience.

We welcome feedback and bug reports via the GitHub project:
https://github.com/aikuma/aikuma-ng

Aikuma-NG will shortly be trialled in fieldwork on Formosan languages of
Taiwan.

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Regards,

Mat Bettinson with Steven Bird and Sang Yeop Lee.
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