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Cultivating Spoken Language Technologies for Unwritten Languages

Thomas Reitmaier Orcid Logo, Dani Kalarikalayil Raju Orcid Logo, Ondrej Klejch Orcid Logo, Electra Wallington Orcid Logo, Nina Markl Orcid Logo, Jen Pearson Orcid Logo, Matt Jones Orcid Logo, Peter Bell Orcid Logo, Simon Robinson Orcid Logo

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We report on community-centered, collaborative research that weaves together HCI, natural language processing, linguistic, and design insights to develop spoken language technologies for unwritten languages. Across three visits to a Banjara farming community in India, we use participatory, technical...

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