developed by the LingDy3 project
for minority languages
Audio Playing Application
LingDyTalk
News |
May 7th, 2025. | We have discontinued providing the service as an app and have restarted it as a web app. Please access HERE on your smartphone to use the service. |
What is LingDyTalk?
LingDyTalk is an audio playing application developed with the support of the Linguistic Dynamic Science Project 3. This application provides a simple interface for playing back audio data stored on a server.
The application plays back audio based on the capture of numerals by the built-in camera of a smartphone. When a numeral such as the page number of a book is captured, the app plays back the audio linked to that numeral.
What is the
LingDy3 project
Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3; 2016.04ｰ2022.03) aims to advance a range of research activities in support of building multicultural and multilingual societies with a special focus on Asian and African regions. Through active collaboration with both academic research institutions and minority language communities, the project aspires to build mutually beneficial relationships between them, such as developing interests and capacity in language documentation and revitalization within language communities that can positively impact not only the communities themselves but also academic research activities.
For details about the LingDy3 project,
please visit the project website:
How to use the application
The application plays back audio based on the capture of numerals by the built-in camera of a smartphone. When a numeral such as the page number of a book is captured, the app plays back the audio linked to that numeral.
Instructional movie
How to operate
Input book code or scan the QR code
Scan or input the numeral (e.g. page number)
Tap the play back button
Operation guide of LingDyTalk
You can download the operation guide (PDF) of this application from here:
List of books and
other documents
The list of books and other materials that you can play back each audio is as follows:
Hezhen/Shibe/Solon/Dagur/Shinekhen Buryat. (April 2018, Sangensha)
Hezhen (recorded by Rinsei Li) , Shinekhen Buryat (recorded by Yasuhiro Yamakoshi): these texts are included in Rinsei Li, Yasuhiro Yamakoshi and Norikazu Kogura eds.
(January 2020, ILCAA)
YAMAKOSHI, Yasuhiro and SANESUE
(August 2020, Public Brain), “Ushi no Kanzo”
Fumiyo Ishiguro
Privacy policy
The LingDyTalk is an application that uses a camera-based number recognition system to play audio data linked with numbers. We do not collect any personal information about the user, nor do we have any modules for collecting information. There are no advertisements, so you can use it safely.
If you have any comments, questions, or complaints about this Privacy Policy or any other aspect of our handling of user information, please contact us at yamakoshi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp.( please replace [at] with @)
You can access this
application HERE
