This page is the toolbox that sits beside the Practical Roadmap for Indigenous Language Digitization and helps you move from ideas to action. Here you will find simple, ready-to-use materials that match the Roadmap steps: sample consent and data agreements, guides for recording and storing audio safely, tips for working with developers on keyboards, and practical checklists you can share with your team.
We share each resource so that communities can adapt, translate, and improve it for their own languages and local realities. You do not need to use everything at once; you can start with the tools that fit your needs today and add more as your project grows.
This is a living, evolving space. We are continually adding new tools, examples, and translations, and will update existing materials as we learn from communities and partners who are putting the Roadmap into practice. We look forward to seeing you here often!
ROADMAP RESOURCES
This page is the toolbox that sits beside the Practical Roadmap for Indigenous Language Digitization and helps you move from ideas to action. Here you will find simple, ready-to-use materials that match the Roadmap steps: sample consent and data agreements, guides for recording and storing audio safely, tips for working with developers on keyboards, and practical checklists you can share with your team.
We share each resource so that communities can adapt, translate, and improve it for their own languages and local realities. You do not need to use everything at once; you can start with the tools that fit your needs today and add more as your project grows.
This is a living, evolving space. We are continually adding new tools, examples, and translations, and will update existing materials as we learn from communities and partners who are putting the Roadmap into practice. We look forward to seeing you here often!
Ethics, Consent & Data Governance
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External Resource
Plain Language
Use this guide to write in a clear and easy to understand manner.
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MLPP Resource
Gaspar Tomas’ Paris Reflection
Read this personal reflection about Tomas’ time at LT4All and his feelings about AI.
Recording & Asset Management
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External Resource
Plain Language
Use this guide to write in a clear and easy to understand manner.
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MLPP Resource
How to Add to Media Folder and Upload to Site EN
Use this video tutorial to learn how to upload audio files to the Durpal site.
Glossary & Style
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MLPP Resource
Audio Excel list
Use this example list to organize your audio files.
Digital Keyboards (Android & Windows)
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External Resource
Google Play Console
Use this page to start the process to upload your app on the Google Play Store.
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External Resource
Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC) Version 1.4
Use this page to modify Microsoft keyboards.
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External Resource
Microsoft Partner Center
Use this page to organize your work with Microsoft.
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MLPP Resource
MLPP Keyboard Page
This page is where all our keyboards are available.
Text-to-Speech
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External Resource
Speech Service Documentation
Read these short articles to learn more about text-to-speech.
Translation Management Tools (TMGMT)
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External Resource
Translation Management Tool
Read this short article to learn more about Durpal’s translation management systems.
AI and MT for Low-Resource Languages
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External Resource
OpenNMT
Read this short article to learn more about neural machine translation systems.
Classroom Pack
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MLPP Resource
Children’s Nature Stories with Centro Tecnológico Biilingüe
Read the stories that the students write and illustrate. You can also hear the stories, using the audio, for each story.
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MLPP Resource
MLPP and CTB Workflow for Children’s Nature Stories
We use this workflow with Centro Tecnológico Biilingüe to produce the stories, illustrations, and audios.
Funding, Partners & Advocacy
Coming Soon
Further Readings & Trainings
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External Resource
Zero to Digital: A Guide to Bring Your Language Online
Read this longer document to learn more about language digitization.
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External Resource
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2025
Read this document to learn more about Indigenous peoples and AI.