Australia is Using Technology to Preserve Indigenous Languages

Opie itself could be more sophisticated, says Wiles, but the available speech-to-text technology that could be used to dictate and store the language is not as advanced as people may believe when they hear the word "robot," she says. The main artificial intelligence-based transcription services provided by Google or IBM support around 100 languages and don't include indigenous dialects in Australia. Local researchers would need to develop a technology for transcribing an indigenous language, but such an approach is time consuming and expensive to implement.