Indigenous language technologies in Canada: Assessment, challenges, and successes
Patrick Littell, Anna Kazantseva, Roland Kühn, Aidan Pine, Antti Arppe, Christopher Cox, Marie-Odile Junker · NPARC · 2018
In this article, we discuss which text, speech, and image technologies have been developed, and would be feasible to develop, for the approximately 60 Indigenous languages spoken in Canada. In particular, we concentrate on technologies that may be feasible to develop for most or all of these languages, not just those that may be feasible for the few most-resourced of these. We assess past achievements and consider future horizons for Indigenous language transliteration, text prediction, spell-checking, approximate search, machine translation, speech recognition, speaker diarization, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, and computer-aided language learning.