  The primary obstacle to developing technologies for low-resource languages is
the lack of usable data. In this paper, we report the adoption and deployment
of 4 technology-driven methods of data collection for Gondi, a low-resource
vulnerable language spoken by around 2.3 million tribal people in south and
central India. In the process of data collection, we also help in its revival
by expanding access to information in Gondi through the creation of linguistic
resources that can be used by the community, such as a dictionary, children's
stories, an app with Gondi content from multiple sources and an Interactive
Voice Response (IVR) based mass awareness platform. At the end of these
interventions, we collected a little less than 12,000 translated words and/or
sentences and identified more than 650 community members whose help can be
solicited for future translation efforts. The larger goal of the project is
collecting enough data in Gondi to build and deploy viable language
technologies like machine translation and speech to text systems that can help
take the language onto the internet.
