Diné Bizaad DataBase Vault

Team Leader

Albert Haskie

We are wanting to build a strong foundation for Digitizing and creating tools for digitizing The Navajo Language for Model Training.

What is the name of your organization?

Nyzhon Studios LLC

What is the name of your solution?

Diné Bizaad DataBase Vault

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We are wanting to build a strong foundation for Digitizing and creating tools for digitizing The Navajo Language for Model Training.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

Diné College

In what country is your solution team headquartered?

USA

What type of organization is your solution team?

Hybrid of for-profit and nonprofit

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What specific problem are you solving?

The Gap of rich digitized Data to no data at all being reduced significantly.

What is your solution?

We have two solutions we want to work with that include building a model. First is creating a Scan Image/PDF to Digital Text for Diné Bizaad, not this is not a translation tool, it is purely transcription. and sound model we wish to create is a Voice to Digital Text model, same thing, Transcription only. This will revolutionize our way of collecting data for Training model purposes and other uses case our tribe will greatly use.

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

To this day, there is no proper Scan Image/PDF to Digital Text or Voice to Digital Text tool. These two tools alone will push our Tribe leap forward. This allows for scanning documents that contain or is all Navajo Text to be more seamless, which will encourage more people to speaḱwrite more in navajo. Same with the Voice to Digital Text tool. Sometimes meetings are held in navajo and this tool will help for those wanting to follow along with a transcription tool. Navajo Had a few diacritic marks that other model struggle to transcript á ą ą́ ł a’ ą́ą’

Solution Team:

Albert Haskie