DocumentCode :
672882
Title :
Towards language preservation: Design and collection of graphemically balanced and parallel speech corpora of Indonesian ethnic languages
Author :
Sakti, Sakriani ; Nakamura, Shigenari
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci., Nara Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Nara, Japan
fYear :
2013
fDate :
25-27 Nov. 2013
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
5
Abstract :
Various intangible cultural expressions in Indonesia such as oral traditions and literature are fragile and easily lost. Currently among 726 languages, 146 are endangered. Although several projects have been initiated for cultural preservation, the available technology that could support communication within indigenous communities, as well as with people outside the community, is still very rare in Indonesia. Speech-to-speech translation is a technology that enables communication among people speaking in different languages, and therefore it is significant for indigenous communities to preserve their cultural language and overcome language barriers. This paper presents the earlier step of long-term development of speech-to-speech translation system from Indonesian ethnic languages to other languages (i.e., English/Indonesian), which is a design and collection of graphemically balanced and parallel speech corpora of four Indonesian major ethnic languages: Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese and Bataks.
Keywords :
audio databases; cultural aspects; language translation; literature; natural languages; speech processing; Balinese language; Bataks language; Indonesian ethnic languages; Javanese language; Sundanese language; cultural expressions; cultural language; cultural preservation; graphemically balanced speech corpora; language preservation; literature; long-term speech-to-speech translation system development; oral traditions; parallel speech corpora; Communities; Cultural differences; Global communication; Internet; Sociology; Speech; Statistics;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Oriental COCOSDA held jointly with 2013 Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation (O-COCOSDA/CASLRE), 2013 International Conference
Conference_Location :
Gurgaon
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICSDA.2013.6709907
Filename :
6709907
Link To Document :
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