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.
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
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)
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)