Background
Indonesia is home to more than 700 languages, and many of them are undocumented. While these languages are invaluable to the country, most of them are endangered as people are shifting to using regional lingua francas or Indonesian, the country’s national language.
Although efforts to document these languages have started, the endangerment pace is so rapid that we need to work harder. One of the problems in documenting local languages is that many local linguists have not implemented modern methods in doing language documentation, such as using softwares to transcribe and annotate data.
To build the capacity of local linguists in doing language documentation in using tools for language documentation, PKBB and AIFIS are conducting a workshop. In this workshop, we will specifically focus on Audacity and ELAN. Audacity is an easy-to-use, multy-track audio editor and recorder for windows, mac OSX, GNU/Linux and other oepanting systems (can be downloaded from https://www.audacityteam.org/download/). ELAN is an annotation tool that allows people to create, edit, visualize, and search annotations for videos and audio data (can be downloaded from https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan/download).
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