--- title: "Kaniʻāina Kaniʻāina Relaunch: Interactive Native Hawaiian Audio Archive" description: From radio archives to digital access, Kaniʻāina brings Native Hawaiian voices to life with searchable audio, transcripts, and a modern Veridian interface. image: https://veridiansoftware.com/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/Kaniaina-news-page-image-v2.jpg --- - [![facebook](https://veridiansoftware.com/hubfs/VeridianSoftware_July2025/images/facebook.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/VeridianSoftware) - [![linkedin](https://veridiansoftware.com/hubfs/VeridianSoftware_July2025/images/linkedin.svg)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dlconsulting-veridian-software) --- [![Veridian](https://veridiansoftware.com/hubfs/VeridianSoftware_July2025/images/veridian-logo.svg "Veridian")](https://veridiansoftware.com) - [About](https://veridiansoftware.com/about) - [Accessibility](https://veridiansoftware.com/accessibility-statement-conformance-report) - [Services](https://veridiansoftware.com/services) - [Scanning](https://veridiansoftware.com/services/scanning) - [Data Conversion](https://veridiansoftware.com/services/data-conversion) - [Presentation Software](https://veridiansoftware.com/services/presentation-software) - [Projects](https://veridiansoftware.com/collections) - Knowledge Base - [Articles & Case Studies](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base) - [Archival Metadata Standards | Guide](https://veridiansoftware.com/archival-metadata-standards-guide) - [WCAG and Accessibility | Guide](https://veridiansoftware.com/wcag-accessibility-compliance-guide-acr-vpat-for-libraries-archives) - [Contact](https://veridiansoftware.com/contact) - - - - # Kaniʻāina Kaniʻāina Relaunch: Interactive Native Hawaiian Audio Archive # Kaniʻāina Kaniʻāina Relaunch: Interactive Native Hawaiian Audio Archive March 11, 2019 [Case Studies](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/case-studies) [Collection Health](https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/tag/collection-health) Kaniʻāina, the first Veridian audio archives collection, launches offering bilingual, interactive access to Native Hawaiian speech recordings and transcripts. Kaniʻāina “Voices of the Land” is digital library focusing on Native Hawaiian speech. It seeks to encourage and enhance the learning and use of Hawaiian through documentation and preservation. Veridian engineers have just completed a refreshed user interface for this precious archive, which provides bilingual, interactive access to Native Hawaiian audio and transcripts.  ![New interface for audio archives collection](https://veridiansoftware.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/kaniaina-old-versus-new.jpg?width=986&height=432&name=kaniaina-old-versus-new.jpg) There are currently two collections within Kaniʻāina. The Ka Leo Hawaiʻi (The Voice of Hawai’i) collection provides access to audio recordings of a public Hawaiian language radio program broadcast from 1972 to 1988*.*  Here you can listen to interviews of native Hawaiian speaking elders and phone calls from listeners. The Kū i ka Mānaleo collection contains audio excerpts from the radio program Ka Leo Hawai’i and other sources, which are arranged into topics of interest. These collections are able to be searched by title, word or name, providing opportunities for detailed research and learning. All the recordings can be played and many have accompanying transcripts. When playing a recording with a transcript available, the transcription scrolls, highlighting the corresponding text automatically. ![audio-recording-with-transcript](https://veridiansoftware.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/audio-recording-with-transcript.jpg?width=600&height=430&name=audio-recording-with-transcript.jpg) Veridian engineers upgraded Kaniʻāina to include the Bootstrap based interface which is more responsive, accessible, and functions better on small screen devices. The Kaniʻāina upgrade is now also visually richer and more representative of its purpose.  Kaniʻāina grows out of a cross-campus collaboration between Hawaiian language scholars, language documentation scholars and digital library/archiving specialists at the University of Hawai‘i. The Veridian team was honoured to be a part of this special project to help to revitalize and promote the indigenous language of Hawaiʻi. 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