We developed a number of dialect apps, developed in collaboration with iBros mobile engineering:

1. Dialäkt äpp

2. Voice Äpp

3. US dialect app

4. Grüezi Moin Servus

5. English Dialects

6. Deutschklang

7. Stimmen

8. SDATS App

[1] Dialäkt Äpp

• Based on the Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland

• Released in March 2013 (->App Store)

• iOS

• Free

Group: Adrian Leemann (Cambridge), Marie-José Kolly (Zürich), Daniel Wanitsch (iBros), Iwar Werlen (Bern), Fiona Hasler (Bern), Carina Eisenblatt (Bern)

Publications:

• Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, R. Purves, D. Britain, E. Glaser (2016). Crowdsourcing language change with smartphone applications. PLOS ONE. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143060

• Kolly, M.-J., A. Leemann, F. Matter (2015). Analysis of spatial variation with app-based crowdsourced audio data. Proceedings of Interspeech 2015 (Dresden).

• Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, V. Dellwo (2014). Crowdsourcing regional variation in speaking rate through the iOS app 'Dialäkt Äpp'. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2014.

• Kolly, M.-J., A. Leemann (2015). Dialäkt Äpp: communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public, in: Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, S. Schmid, V. Dellwo (eds.), Trends in Phonetics and Phonology. Studies from German-speaking Europe.

• Matter, F. (2014). The realisation of g'ha with an affricate in Swiss German dialects. BA-Thesis, Department of General Linguistics, University of Bern.

• Hasler, F., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly (2013). Die Berner Dialektlandschaft im Wandel. Poster an Phonetik & Phonologie 9 (P&P9), Universität Zürich, 11. & 12.10.2013.

• Renning, N. (2013a). Einfluss von Hintergrundmusik auf die Wahrnehmung des Alters durch die Stimme. Proseminararbeit in Allgemeiner Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Zürich.

• Renning, N. (2013b). Hörerwahrnehmung des Geschlechts von Kinderstimmen aufgrund der Herkunft. Proseminararbeit in Allgemeiner Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Zürich.

[2] Voice Äpp

• Based on an improved prediction algorithm from Dialäkt Äpp data

• Prediction with automatic speech recognition

• Released 5 January 2015 (-> App Store, Google Play)

• Free

• Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (186'046 CHF)

• voiceapp.ch

Group: Adrian Leemann (Cambridge), Marie-José Kolly (Zürich), Volker Dellwo (Zürich), Jean-Philippe Goldman (Geneva), Ingrid Hove (Zürich), Ibrahim Almajai (Geneva), Daniel Wanitsch (iBors), Sarah Grimm (ETH Zürich), Sylvain Robert (ETH Zürich)

Publications:

• Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, J.-P. Goldman, V. Dellwo, I. Hove, I. Almajai, S. Grimm, S. Robert, D. Wanitsch (2015). Voice Äpp: a mobile app for crowdsourcing Swiss German dialect data. Proceedings of Interspeech (Dresden).

• Goldman, J.-P., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly, I. Hove, I. Almajai, V. Dellwo, S. Moran (2014). A Crowdsourcing Smartphone Application for Swiss German: Putting language documentation in the hands of the users. Proceedings of LREC 2014, 3444-3447.

• Kolly, M.-J., A. Leemann, V. Dellwo, J.-P. Goldman, I. Hove, I. Almajai (2014). Voice Äpp. A smartphone application for crowdsourcing Swiss German dialect data. Proceedings of Digital Humanities 2014.

• Hove, I., A. Leemann, M.-J. Kolly, V. Dellwo, J.-P. Goldman (2015): Swiss Voice App: “My voice – my dialect”, in: Leemann, A., M.-J. Kolly, S. Schmid, V. Dellwo (eds.), Trends in Phonetics and Phonology. Studies from German-speaking Europe

[3] US Dialect App

• Based on Bert Vaux's Harvard dialect survey

• Released for iOS in December 2014 (-> free, paid)

• free (with ads) / 99c (no ads)

Group: Adrian Leemann (Cambridge), Bert Vaux (Cambridge), Daniel Wanitsch (iBros), Steven Moran (Zürich), Sarah Grimm (ETH Zürich), Sylvain Robert (ETH Zürich), Taras Zakharko (Zürich)

[4] Grüezi, Moin, Servus (in collaboration with Spiegel Online and Tagesanzeiger)

• Based on Atlas zur Deutschen Alltagssprache (Elspass/Möller)

• iOS / Android

• 99 cents

Group: Adrian Leemann (Cambridge), Marie-José Kolly (Zürich), Stephan Elspass (Salzburg), Robert Möller (Liège), Daniel Wanitsch (iBros), Sarah Grimm (ETH Zürich), Sylvain Robert (ETH Zürich), Jürg Fleischer (Marburg), Roland Kehrein (Marburg)

[5] English Dialect App

• Based on the Survey of English Dialects

• Released in January 2016 (-> App Store, Google Play)

• free

Group: Adrian Leemann (Cambridge), Dave Britain (Bern), Marie-José Kolly (Zürich), Tam Blaxter (Cambridge), Daniel Wanitsch (iBros), Sarah Grossenbacher (Bern), Melanie Calame (Bern)

[6] Deutschklang

• Released in August 2016 (-> App Store, Google Play)

• free

Group: Adrian Leemann (Cambridge)

[7] Stimmen

• Released in September 2017 (-> App Store, Google Play)

• free

Group: Nanna Hilton (Groningen), Charlotte Gooskens (Groningen), Adrian Leemann (Lancaster)

[8] SDATS App

• Released June 2020 (-> App Store, Google Play)

• free

Group: Adrian Leemann, Péter Jeszenszky, Carina Steiner (Bern)