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-## FormosanBank
+# FormosanBank
 
-**What is FormosanBank?**  
-FormosanBank is an open-source repository of corpora and quality-control tools supporting the documentation, processing, and machine-learning use of Taiwan’s indigenous Formosan languages. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}
+**Short description:**  
+FormosanBank is a large-scale, machine-readable corpus and tooling ecosystem for Taiwan’s Indigenous Formosan languages—supporting research, education, and revitalization across 16 official languages with multimodal text–audio resources.
 
-**Key Features:**  
-- A large collection of corpora across multiple Formosan languages (e.g., Amis, Paiwan, Atayal) with scripts for cleaning, orthography extraction, validation etc. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}  
-- Quality control modules: punctuation checks, non-ASCII filtering, XML-template verification, orthography extraction. :contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3}  
-- Designed to support downstream NLP tasks (translation, ASR, summarization) for low-resource languages. :contentReference[oaicite:4]{index=4}  
-- License: *[you should insert your specific license here]*  
-- Maintained in a GitHub repository: [https://github.com/FormosanBank/FormosanBank](https://github.com/FormosanBank/FormosanBank) :contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5}  
-- Linked documentation: [https://ai4commsci.gitbook.io/formosanbank](https://ai4commsci.gitbook.io/formosanbank)  
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+## Overview
 
-**Short description:**  
-Building open-source infrastructure and corpora for Taiwan’s indigenous Formosan languages, enabling machine translation, ASR and summarization efforts in extremely low-resource settings.
+FormosanBank curates standardized, machine-actionable corpora for the Indigenous **Formosan** languages of Taiwan (part of the Austronesian family). The project aggregates, cleans, and structures multilingual text and audio into a consistent XML schema, enabling downstream tasks such as ASR/forced alignment, translation, lexicon building, and pedagogical content creation.  
+- **Scale:** 8M+ tokens, 730+ hours of audio (across languages and corpora).  
+- **Structure:** Language-specific corpora delivered in a unified **FormosanBank XML** format with metadata, speaker/source info, and licensing notes where applicable.  
+- **Tooling:** Quality-control (QC) utilities for XML validation, orthography checks/extraction, token counting, and cleaning pipelines.
 
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-### Getting started  
-1. Clone the repository:  
-```bash
-git clone https://github.com/FormosanBank/FormosanBank
-cd FormosanBank
-pip install -r requirements.txt
+## Quick links
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+- 📖 **Documentation / Guidebook**: https://ai4commsci.gitbook.io/formosanbank  
+- 🗂️ **Repository (code, corpora, QC tools)**: https://github.com/FormosanBank/FormosanBank  
+- 🏛️ **Hugging Face (org home)**: search for the “FormosanBank” organization on Hugging Face to browse datasets & Spaces.