Of the 7,000 languages spoken around the globe, 2,680 Indigenous languages - more than one third - are in danger of disappearing.
To help raise awareness and encourage people to explore indigenous languages, we developed Project Barnard - an open source photo-translation platform that’s powered by machine learning and image recognition.
Originally launched in New Zealand, as ‘Kupu’, in collaboration with Spark and the te aka Maori dictionary, this technology is now openly available for linguists and indigenous language organisations to create their own translation apps.
Our hope is that by enabling more people to share their language, users will be able to explore the indigenous languages around them, and ultimately be inspired to engage with them on a deeper level.
- Node 14+
- Angular 14.0+
- Terraform
- Create a new project in the Google Cloud Console.
- Enable the
Compute Engine APIandCloud Build APIin theAPIs & Servicessection. - Create a service account with
Storage AdminandCompute Adminroles. - Generate and download a private key for the service account in JSON format.
- Rename the private key to
./terraform/account.json.
- cd to
./terraform. - Run
terraform init.
- cd to
./client. - Run
npm install.
- To avoid having to input your terraform values every time it is run, create the file
./terraform/main.auto.tfvarswith your terraform variable values.
- cd to
./client. - Run
npm run start. - Navigate to
http://localhost:4200/woolaroo.
As you can see, the app is set to run at a "woolaroo" path. This is purely for
consistency with how we at Google serve this on the Google Arts and Culture
experiments page. It ensures that all environments are consistent. However, there
is no specific need to do this. If you want to run it at the top level, then
be sure to us ng serve and change the asset BaseURL paramenters in the
environment config.
- Supported UI languages are set in
src/environments/environment.ts - Language translations are in JSON format in
src/assets/locale
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