Rare audio of indigenous languages saved by invention 100 years later - Science Nation
Non-invasive technology allows researchers to transfer recordings from thousands of decaying wax cylinders
Description: Optical scan technology is helping researchers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, preserve audio of 78 indigenous California languages, most of which were recorded more than a century ago. The recordings are on approximately 2,700 wax cylinders that are now barely audible due to issues such as mold. These are the only known sound recordings for several of the languages, and in many other cases, the recordings include unique speech practices and otherwise unknown stories and songs.
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), linguist Andrew Garrett, digital librarian Erik Mitchell and anthropologist Ira Jacknis, all of UC Berkeley, are restoring these recordings. The researchers are using a non-invasive optical scanning technique that was developed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory physicists Carl Haber and Earl Cornell. The collaboration with Haber and Cornell is enabling the NSF-funded research team to transfer all 100 hours of audio content from the wax cylinders and improve the recordings, finally making it possible to figure out which language is being spoken and what's being said.
The rich Native American cultural collection will ultimately be accessible to indigenous communities as well as to the general public and scholars. The linguistic diversity of the world's estimated 7,000 languages is immense. Modern technologies like this one unlock the documentation to enable new community uses and scientific investigations.
For more information and access to available recordings, visit http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~garrett/archives.html.
This research was co-funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities; grant number PD-230659-15.
NSF support was provided by award #1500779, "Linguistic and ethnographic sound recordings from early twentieth-century California: Optical scanning, digitization, and access."
Grant URL: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1500779&HistoricalAwards=false
Miles O'Brien, Science Nation Correspondent
Kate Tobin, Science Nation Producer
Видео Rare audio of indigenous languages saved by invention 100 years later - Science Nation канала National Science Foundation
Description: Optical scan technology is helping researchers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, preserve audio of 78 indigenous California languages, most of which were recorded more than a century ago. The recordings are on approximately 2,700 wax cylinders that are now barely audible due to issues such as mold. These are the only known sound recordings for several of the languages, and in many other cases, the recordings include unique speech practices and otherwise unknown stories and songs.
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), linguist Andrew Garrett, digital librarian Erik Mitchell and anthropologist Ira Jacknis, all of UC Berkeley, are restoring these recordings. The researchers are using a non-invasive optical scanning technique that was developed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory physicists Carl Haber and Earl Cornell. The collaboration with Haber and Cornell is enabling the NSF-funded research team to transfer all 100 hours of audio content from the wax cylinders and improve the recordings, finally making it possible to figure out which language is being spoken and what's being said.
The rich Native American cultural collection will ultimately be accessible to indigenous communities as well as to the general public and scholars. The linguistic diversity of the world's estimated 7,000 languages is immense. Modern technologies like this one unlock the documentation to enable new community uses and scientific investigations.
For more information and access to available recordings, visit http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~garrett/archives.html.
This research was co-funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities; grant number PD-230659-15.
NSF support was provided by award #1500779, "Linguistic and ethnographic sound recordings from early twentieth-century California: Optical scanning, digitization, and access."
Grant URL: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1500779&HistoricalAwards=false
Miles O'Brien, Science Nation Correspondent
Kate Tobin, Science Nation Producer
Видео Rare audio of indigenous languages saved by invention 100 years later - Science Nation канала National Science Foundation
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