Meet the SkoBot, a language revitalization robot (a thread)

Introducing (or reintroducing) you to the SkoBot, a long form video. Language preservation of Indigenous languages is crucial. These robots (called SkoBots) were designed alongside my mentors to go to youth for free and supplement community language learning (never replaces it)

This was made to see what the future of Anishinaabe toys could look like entirely by youth. This version is our latest prototype in our children’s voices series that implements an internally created (and brand new) app that can recognize speech and reply in audio files

which will later be replaced by whole phrases with good quality audio once everything is finished being recorded and documented. The goal is for other little kids to be able to see themselves reflected in an Anishinaabe toy

We have several other languages and can expand to others, but are focusing largely on an Anishinaabemowin version in our several dialects

While the robot can recognize being talked to, we do NOT use Al in a way that impacts the Indigenous languages, we never own the audio files, we never sell language tools or robots or give them to people outside of our community.

Our ethical tech frameworks took us years to develop. This is a project of @steamconnection. They’re available via a limited trial release for free to tribal language programs who can work with us on improving the robots. They are not currently available to individuals

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I so want something like this for Pitesami. 🥰🥰 Way to go!!!

Incredible work Danielle. Can't wait to see people using this. Beautiful design, too.

That is so cool

That's awesome!