OpenSpeaks

OpenSpeaks is an audiovisual documentation toolkit for low-resource languages. Its open educational resources, tools, techniques, and editable templates were originally designed for language archivists to help them with language documentation. The educational version is hosted on Wikiversity. The Meta-wiki version here is for Wikimedia project management and community engagement.

Projects

• OpenSpeaks Archives (audiovisual archive of low-resource languages)
• OpenSpeaks language documentation toolkit on Wikiversity
• Oral Knowledge Framework (FAIR–CARE‑aligned guide for planning and ethics)
• Text style guide for captioning/subtitling and transcription
• Open source tool suite to assist with file management, subtitling, metadata and more
• A curriculum on community-based audio-visual language documentation and archiving training

Media archived at GLAM institutions

• Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR): OpenSpeaks Archives' collection of nearly 20 languages - upcoming
• Library of Congress: Audio archive of over 71,000 files
• Language Archive Cologne (LAC): Kusunda and Sora languages

People involved

Achhai Chaudhary

Balaram Muduli

Bhawani

Arun Prasad

Bhawani Pal

Bhuppi Pangtey

Bimla Badwal

Deepak Joshi

Dinabandhu Gamango

Gobardhan Panda

Jayprakash Chauhan

Kaliprasad Raji

Kimmi Pal

K.S. Badwal

Kshetrabasi Juanga

Manjula Bhuyan

Meghavath Sathish

Namad Dalbehera

Nenavath Mohan

Opino Gomango

Prateek Pattanaik

Ramani Dalbehera

Ranjithsiji

Sampati

Sajehan Buckman

Sanjib Chaudhary

Srinivas Gamango

Subhashish Panigrahi

Suchita

Surendra Dutt

Surendra Singh Pangtey

Uday Raj Aaley