Living Tongues teams up with Shure for “No Voice Left Behind” campaign

We’ve been using Shure microphones in our language documentation projects for many years because they always work reliably, even in rugged conditions. In particular, we use Shure head-mounted mics for phonetic elicitation as well as capturing oral narratives.

We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with audio company Shure for their new campaign – “No Voice Left Behind”. It highlights our efforts to record speakers of minority and under-served languages around the world, using Shure’s latest microphone, the MoveMic.

The photos below were captured by visual artists from Shure and Media.Monks during our recent fieldwork recording Santali speakers near Tezpur, Assam, India. We visited the communities of Barbil Pathar Gaon, Patia Pukhuri and Simalu Guri Gaon. Thank you to all the Santali community members who collaborated with us. Read more on the Shure website.

Shout-out to Living Tongues linguists Luke Horo, Pamir Gogoi and Greg Anderson, who worked closely with Shure during fieldwork and interviews for this project, and to program director Anna Luisa Daigneault who coordinated the production and logistics of the partnership.