Aidan Pine: Digital Dictionary

On this episode of The Root & STEM Podcast, host and journalist Sofia Osborne speaks with Aidan Pine, a researcher working on the Indigenous Language Technology project at the Canadian National Research Council. Pine shares what got him interested in language revitalization (00:56). He then explains how his endangered language dictionary app Mother Tongues was founded (03:35). Aidan explains the ReadAlong Studio, a part of the Canadian Indigenous languages technology project that he has assisted, and how it’s helping young learners. (13:56). Finally, Aidan shares his vision moving forward for Mother Tongues (17:39).