Words are presented to the speaker in the form of a list, created on the spot, in advance, or by reusing an existing Wikimedia category.

In spring 2021, Lingua Libre was offline due to a fire in Strasbourg,[2] but no audio recordings were lost.

They are mainly used on other Wikimedia projects, for example to illustrate entries on Wiktionaries or proper nouns in Wikipedia articles.

The recordings are also reused in Natural Language Processing projects, for example to drive Mozilla's DeepSpeech speech recognition engines.

Only suitable for audio recording, Lingua Libre was shown during a workshop on Occitan language in December 2016,[7][8] and then presented to the online Wikimedia community[9] and at international events in 2017.

The new version of Lingua Libre is based on MediaWiki, uses Wikibase and OAuth to better integrate into the Wikimedia environment.