App development
We developed a number of dialect apps, developed in collaboration with iBros mobile engineering:
- Dialäkt äpp
- Voice Äpp
- US dialect app
- Grüezi Moin Servus
- English Dialects
- Deutschklang
- Stimmen
- 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.
- 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
- 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)
- 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)