[1] The app includes a text-free interface for consecutive interpretation, designed for users who are not literate.
[2] The Aikuma won Grand Prize in the Open Source Software World Challenge (2013).
[4] Aikuma was developed with sponsorship from the National Science Foundation, including a $101,501 (US) project, "to use mobile telephones to collect larger amounts of data on undocumented endangered languages than would never be possible through usual fieldwork.
"[5] Aikuma and its modified version (Lig-Aikuma) have been used for collecting substantial quantities of audio in remote indigenous villages.
[6] A modified version of the app, called Lig-Aikuma, has been developed at the Université Grenoble Alpes (LIG laboratory) and implements new features such as elicitation of speech from text, images and videos.