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!

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.