LinguaLibre
Apps
Applications gather notable external applications using LinguaLibre-produced audios. This includes web applications, mobile applications, and reuses.
Wiktionaries (multiple)
- meta:User:Lingua Libre Bot on: fr, pl, oc, or, shy, wikidata
Occitan Gascon - French dictionary
Lingua Libre SignIt extension (French to LSF)
- Description: A web browser extension to translate (French) words into (French) Sign Language videos, see Lingua Libre/SignIt.
- Linguistic community: video authors.
- Languages: French Sign Language ; User interface in most macro languages
- Year: 2019
- Technology: cross-browser web extension.
- Code: HTML/CSS/JS
- Data: videos of words being hand signed.
- Data sources: videos from Commons and Lingualibre, data from Wiktionaries ..
- Repository: https://github.com/lingua-libre/SignIt
- Developer model: single web developer (needs more)
- License: MIT License.
- Contact:
- Coordination: Hugo Lopez (github)
- Institution: wikimedia France
- Website: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lingua-libre-signit/
Cat Is Smart (Chinese)
- Description: A multimedia, bilingual Chinese-English dictionary and adaptative learning system to learn Chinese.
- Linguistic community: author.
- Languages: Chinese.
- Year: 2015
- Technology: responsive web application.
- Code: JS
- Data: Chinese audio / Chinese word / pinyin / (pos) English .
- Data sources: audio from Lingualibre, lexicographical data from hsk sources.
- Repository: https://github.com/hugolpz/Cat-is-smart
- Developer model: single author,l
- License: MIT License.
- Contact:
- Coordination: Hugo Lopez (github)
- Institution:
- Website: https://hugolpz.github.io/Cat-is-smart/html/search.html
ChinoisSansFrontière.tw (Chinese)
- Description: A multimedia, bilingual Chinese-French manual to learn traditional Chinese.
- Linguistic community: author.
- Languages: Chinese, French.
- Year: 2021
- Technology: responsive web application.
- Code: JS
- Data: Chinese texts, sentences, words, their pinyin, audio pronunciation and French.
- Data sources: audio from Lingualibre, lexicographical data from author (Hugo Lopez).
- Repository: https://github.com/hugolpz/csf
- Developer model: single author.
- License: Copyrighted.
- Contact:
- Coordination: Hugo Lopez (github)
- Institution: Lyon 3 University.
- Website: https://hugolpz.github.io/csf
OpenEdx-hanzi (Chinese)
- Description: A multimedia, bilingual Chinese-French application to learn how to write the most common Chinese characters.
- Linguistic community: Hugo Lopez.
- Languages: Chinese, French.
- Year: 2018
- Technology: responsive application.
- Code: JS
- Data: Chinese audio / Chinese word / pinyin / (pos) English .
- Data sources: audio from Lingualibre.
- Repository: https://github.com/hugolpz/OpenEdX-hanzi
- Developer model: single author, initially paid, volunteer maintenance.
- License: MIT License.
- Contact:
- Coordination: Hugo Lopez (github)
- Institution: Paris University, Learning Planet Institute.
- Website: https://hugolpz.github.io/OpenEdx-hanzi/
- Explainer: https://codepen.io/hugolpz/pen/QYrGKB
AlphaTiles (multiple)
- Description: A flashcards, images based mobile application to study words of various minority languages
- Linguistic community: mostly Americas.
- Languages: various.
- Year: ?
- Technology: mobile application.
- Code: JAVA
- Data: L1 word, L1 image, L2 word, L2 audio.
- Repository: https://github.com/AlphaTiles
- Developer model: core team (90%), open source contributors (<10%).
- License: MIT License, SIL authorship.
- Contact:
- Coordination: Aaron Hemphill (github)
- Institution: Summer Institute of Linguistic (SIL) is the world leader in minority language's linguistic and lexicography.
- Website: http://alphatilesapps.org
Anki plugin
- Webpage: Ankiweb > Lingua Libre and Forvo Addon
- Github : https://github.com/rkosov/Lingua-Libre-and-Forvo-Audio-Downloader
- Announcement: Anki Extension Release
- Author: Languageseeker
Paires Minimales
A website for browsing minimal pairs in French, based on the French Wiktionary and Lingua Libre pronunciations (via Commons' API).
https://pairesminimales.herokuapp.com/
Ladino translation and text-to-speech
- Not using Lingualibre, but a vivid example of what we could do: machine learning-based text-to-speech.
GoldenDict
- Description: A free and open-source multimedia dictionary program that gives translations of words and phrases for different languages.
- Linguistic community: FOSS.
- Languages: many, see https://cloud.freemdict.com/index.php/s/pgKcDcbSDTCzXCs , http://download.huzheng.org/babylon/bidirectional/
- Year: 2010–present
- Technology:
- Code: C++
- Data type: L1 word and L1 definition ; L1 and L2 translations ; audios.
- Data sources: lexicographical data from various FOSS ; audio from Forvo, Lingualibre.
- Repository: https://github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict (active)
- Developer model: collaborative, active.
- License: GNU GPLv3+
- Contact:
- Coordination: Xiao Yifang (github). Note: former project by Konstantin Isakov (github) now inactive.
- Institution:
- Website: https://goldendict.org (old)
- Install: releases for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Note: The former project is inactive since 2019.
VueJS records checker
- Description: Demonstrator of a Lingualibre interface to check audio's quality.
- Linguistic community: n.a.
- Languages: catalan (sample demo).
- Year: 2021.
- Technology:
- Code: JS, VueJS
- Data type: L1 word ; audios.
- Data sources: Lingualibre.
- Repository: https://github.com/TL-digitalcampus-g3/interface-lingua-libre (inactive)
- Developer model: one shot demo.
- License: Not specified.
- Contact:
- Coordination: ?
- Institution: Toulouse Digital Campus
- Website: https://interface-lingua-libre-dusky.vercel.app or http://projet.tekmedias.com/lingua-libre/
- Install: n.a. (web app).
Yomitan web extension
Following User:Bicolino34's idea and github ticket, then a week of collaborative discussions and coding (User:Yug), #LinguaLibre audio resources are getting integrated into the popular web extension dictionary #Yomitan.[1] Yomitan is an rich, extensive dictionary used by 20,000+ Chrome and Firefox users. It also has #Anki integration. cc @Wikimedia_Fr
- Description: Click-to-translate web extension.
- Linguistic community: n.a.
- Languages: Japanese-English (default). More pairs available after install.
- Year: 2024+[1]
- Technology:
- Code: JS, Web extension API
- Data type: L1 word ; audios.
- Data sources: Lingualibre.
- Repository: https://github.com/themoeway/yomitan/ (very active)
- Developer model: open source, community lead, very active.
- License: ?
- Contact:
- Coordination: ?
- Institution: ?
- Website: ?
- Install: via your browser's store
Names of the Land interactive map
Following recording of toponyms in endangered whistled Occitan, User:Yug and {2nd engineer} pushed toward this extreme field linguistic interactive map. This interactive map leverages and combines several notorious collaborative open content projects, namely: OSM, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Lingualibre. Thank to URFIST Occitanie for supporting this project and c:User:Univòc64 for leading the 1,000s recordings.
- Description: Interactive map hosted on Github page, which can therefore be embedded into 3rd party websites. Easy to hack to other languages.
- Linguistic community: Occitan, Whistled Occitan.
- Languages: neutral (nearly no labels).
- Year: 2024
- Technology:
- Code: basic JS, VueJS, leaflet.js, github.
- Data type: L1 word ; geocoordinates ; audios.
- Data sources: Wikidata (toponyms labels and geocoordinates), Lingualibre (audio recording), Wikimedia Commons (audio files)
- Repository: https://github.com/hugolpz/NamesOfTheLand/
- Developer model: open source, one week coding sprint
- License: MIT
- Contact: user:Yug
- Coordination: user:Yug
- Institution: URFIST Occitanie, SICD Toulouse, Université de Toulouse ; Association Siular d'Aas (Philippe Biu)
- Website: https://hugolpz.github.io/NamesOfTheLand/
- Install:
- for default language → use iframe
- to adapt to your language → replicate[2] recording protocol, fork repository, hack the JS code (very easy).
Other projects
- Tatoeba.org — Written sentences
- Ntealan.org — African languages.