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There are a few tools that can be useful to learn things about Albania. We priviledge open source tools as much as possible, to ensure a free and open knowledge about Albania.
Learning the Albanian language
OnAlbanian
OnAlbanian is an online platform designed to learn Albanian in a fun and dynamic way. You can enjoy the free version or pay to get more features. The founder is very reactive and open to new ideas. This is the most promising online tool to learn the Albanian language, filling in an important gap, and better than the other alternatives you can find.
Automated transcription of Albanian speech (STT)
Best solution for transcribing albanian speech to text
When you learn Albanian, it can be very useful to associate speech with subtitles. However, the Albanian language is not covered by the automatic transcription by Youtube for example. Thankfully, there are different initiatives to create a good automated speech-recognition software for the Albanian language. This is vital not only for individuals who learn Albanian, whether foreigners or members of the diaspora, but also for hearing-impaired for example.
The best solution is available thanks to the hard work of Kushtrim Visoka. He trained Whisper in Albanian, thanks to datasets from open source Mozilla Common Voice. You can use an online version of the tool from Kushtrim’s Hugging Face space here. This is truly a game changer and shows that open source tools help change the world, far from companies claiming to provide such a service based on closed-source materials, and who, as far as we might know, just use Google’s API for Automated Speech Recognition in Albanian and charge you for it. It takes belief, hard work and a community to build emancipating tools.