Gaelic Speech Recognition

Island Voices have made a significant contribution to this fascinating project led by Will Lamb, formally of Colaisde Bheinn na Faoghla and now at Edinburgh University.

With colleagues at Quorate and @ThinkUHI, we've been developing the first viable speech recogniser for #Gaelic. In this blog by Lucy Evans, there's a demo of our automatic subtitle generator using videos from @GuthanVoices. More exciting updates soon!https://t.co/qpIs54kT1G pic.twitter.com/JiPtBluujT

— Dr Will Lamb 🌱 (@UilleamUan) January 29, 2021

Follow the tweet, or this link, not just for a full techie description that is clearly laid out, but also to see how the transcribed videos created by the Guthan nan Eilean project have been visually enhanced by Quorate‘s text aligner to automatically produce same-language Gaelic subtitles.

It’s dazzling stuff! And this is still the beginning, thanks to the seed funding from Soillse for collaborative work. Next stages promise to bring in additional partners and much wider applications. Watch this space!