When people ask about my work applying AI to Texas Czech preservation, they often want to know about the technology. But understanding the AI requires understanding the foundation: decades of meticulous archival work by two scholars, women, who recognized the value of a disappearing dialect. March is Women’s History Month, and here is a bitContinue reading “The Women Behind Texas Czech Preservation: Dr. Svatava Pírková Jakobson and Dr. Lida Cope”
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From Professional Linguist and Senior Executive to Texas Czech Preservationist: Continuing My Great-Grandfather’s 140-Year Mission
This is the first in a series of posts I’ll be writing on the Texas Czech Legacy Project Introduction: The Unexpected Journey If you’d told me a few years ago that I’d be spending my time listening to transcripts of interviews with elderly Texas Czechs, I probably would have laughed and said, “Yeah I WISH.”Continue reading “From Professional Linguist and Senior Executive to Texas Czech Preservationist: Continuing My Great-Grandfather’s 140-Year Mission”
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