February 2026 – Endangered Languages and Cultures

The new PARADISEC catalog viewer

18 February 202616 February 2026 by Nick Thieberger

This week we launched a new way of viewing the PARADISEC catalog. We have been working towards this over the past two years, basing the approach to displaying our collections and items on the PILARS principles developed by the Language Data Commons of Australia. We can now separate the original catalog from the view of … Read more

Speech recognition on your laptop

14 February 2026 by Nick Thieberger

Following on from the work reported on two posts ago with progress on speech recognition for Bislama and Nafsan, Aso Mahmudi has now created a desktop app (called Easper – Elan Automated Speech Recognition) that takes a wav file as input, segments it, does speaker diarisation, and transcribes it, delivering an Elan file as the … Read more