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Working to break down barriers to intercultural communication, while ensuring indigenous and native languages are represented online and survive the transition to digital.

"There are only approximately 29 languages with digital vitality (Simons et al., 2017). For languages, digital vitality represents the extent to which a language is used and usable on the Internet and through digital devices and platforms...The dearth of platforms, applications, and software for so-called “minority” or non-dominant languages is representative of the experience of low-resourced language speakers on the Internet."

Meital K. and Jason M. (2022) Language and Coloniality: Non-Dominant Languages in the Digital Landscape. Pollicy

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Migravoice

Migravoice

India (Bhārat)

Amplifying voices of migrants and refugees in European Media

https://migravoice.eu/
Indigenius

Indigenius

Lagos

Indigenius Keyboard is a smart, multilingual keyboard supporting inclusive digital communication in 180+ Languages.

https://myindigenius.com/
CDIAL

CDIAL

Lagos

Digitizing Local Languages, Localizing Digital access for 1 Billion Africans

https://www.cdial.co/
Tolgee

Tolgee

Czech Republic (Ceska Republika)

Open-source developer & translator friendly localization platform

https://tolgee.io
Weblate

Weblate

Copylefted libre software, used by over 2,500 libre software projects and companies in over 165 countries.

https://weblate.org/en/
Meta's Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) model

Meta's Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) model

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA

Our Massively Multilingual Speech AI research models can identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than any known previous technology. These models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100.

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/05/ai-massively-multilingual-speech-technology/
Are We Together?

Are We Together?

Ethiopia (Ityop'iya)

The findings from our study are intended to provide insights to developers and designers to improve the accessibility and inclusivity of digital platforms from the perspective of language.

https://www.arewetogether.com/
Carbyne Live Audio Translation

Carbyne Live Audio Translation

Govtech vendor whose live audio translation has been used to translate 911 calls in realtime

https://liveaudiotranslation.carbyne.com/
Common Voice

Common Voice

Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USA

Mozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en
Name Reclaim

Name Reclaim

Canada

ReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.

https://www.namereclaim.ca/
Language & Coloniality: Non-Dominant Languages in the Digital Landscape

Language & Coloniality: Non-Dominant Languages in the Digital Landscape

Kampala, Uganda

This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.

https://pollicy.org/resource/language-coloniality-non-dominant-languages-in-the-digital-landscape/
Hyperaudio

Hyperaudio

A new way of looking at audio and video. Transcribe, translate, repurpose and share.

https://hyper.audio/
Tarjimly

Tarjimly

Mountain View, CA, USA

Millions of refugees & people in need of humanitarian assistance struggle with language barriers. Help give them on-demand language access. Volunteer with Us

https://tarjim.ly/en
CV Project

CV Project

Trento

An open source Android app to drive data donations to Mozilla's Common Voice project

https://www.saveriomorelli.com/commonvoice/
Weglot

Weglot

Translate your website - Multilingual for WordPress, Shopify and more

https://weglot.com/
Why We Need to Change the Way We Write About Africa

Why We Need to Change the Way We Write About Africa

Africa

A storyteller’s guide to reframing Africa

https://africanofilter.org/disruption/why-we-need-to-change-the-way-we-write-about-africa
Transifex

Transifex

Transifex is the world's largest localization community for open source projects

https://explore.transifex.com/
Localize JS

Localize JS

Easily translate dynamic websites & apps while eliminating tedious file transfers from your localization workflow.

https://localizejs.com/
सङ्ग्रह (Collection)

सङ्ग्रह (Collection)

Nepal

The collection is a digital collection of literary works written in Nepali and other languages ​​of Nepal.

http://sangraha.org/
Global Language Data Review

Global Language Data Review

This Global Language Data Review sets out what language data you need for planning, where you can find it, and how you can help build the body of data to support inclusive services.

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9ba9c45cd57b4391a14cc170f435ac92
7000 Languages

7000 Languages

745 Atlantic Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

We create free language-learning software for Indigenous communities around the world.

https://7000.org/
Localization Lab

Localization Lab

Our crowdsourced localization results in more accurate and timely translations, and unlocks access to the internet for users all over the world

https://www.localizationlab.org/
Translators Without Borders

Translators Without Borders

Translators without Borders is a global community of over 100,000 members helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak.

https://translatorswithoutborders.org/
Whose Knowledge

Whose Knowledge

We are a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.

https://whoseknowledge.org/