LingSync
A Free Tool for Creating and Maintaining a Shared Database
For Communities, Linguists and Language Learners
How LingSync makes sharing, searching,
and revitalizing your language easier:
- Speakers, linguists, and learners can contribute remotely
to one centralized database, distributing the responsibility of
documentation.
- The database is shared between researchers and the
community. Everyone with permission has access to the data,
ensuring that language information is not just on the computers
of a few people.
- While it is easy to share data, the database is secure
and encrypted. Permission settings control who can see what.
- LingSync is customizable. You decide what is important
and how much detail goes into your database.
- Data is easy to tag, search, and sort by factors you can
create (i.e., speaker, date, morpheme or construction type).
- It is very easy to import and export data in a variety of
formats.
- Learners can participate in recording and transcribing
their language.
- Users can easily search the database for specific words
or phrases, and discover patterns on their own.
- Material can be easily converted from LingSync to
language lessons on a complementary language learning app (still
under development).
- LingSync is a Chrome app, which means it works on
Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPad, and also offline.
- LingSync is free and open source. You maintain control of
your data.
- LingSync learns from your data to streamline morpheme
glossing.
- LingSync automatically backs up your database. Previous
versions are accessible, making it easy to undo any mistakes.