{"id":4854,"date":"2021-01-29T13:42:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T13:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2021-01-29T13:42:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T13:42:06","slug":"gaelic-speech-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2021\/01\/29\/gaelic-speech-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaelic Speech Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With colleagues at Quorate and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThinkUHI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ThinkUHI<\/a>, we&#39;ve been developing the first viable speech recogniser for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gaelic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Gaelic<\/a>. In this blog by Lucy Evans, there&#39;s a demo of our automatic subtitle generator using videos from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuthanVoices?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GuthanVoices<\/a>. More exciting updates soon!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qpIs54kT1G\">https:\/\/t.co\/qpIs54kT1G<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JiPtBluujT\">pic.twitter.com\/JiPtBluujT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Will Lamb \ud83c\udf31 (@UilleamUan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UilleamUan\/status\/1355112598505709569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Follow the tweet, or <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ed.ac.uk\/garg\/2021\/01\/27\/automatic-speech-recognition-for-scottish-gaelic-background-and-update\/\">this link<\/a>, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/quoratetechnology.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quorate<\/a>&#8216;s text aligner to automatically produce same-language Gaelic subtitles.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s dazzling stuff! And this is still the beginning, thanks to the seed funding from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soillse.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soillse<\/a> for collaborative work. Next stages promise to bring in additional partners and much wider applications. Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UilleamUan\/status\/1353644406868422656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this space<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#39;ve been developing the first viable speech recogniser for #Gaelic. In this blog by Lucy Evans, there&#39;s a demo of our automatic subtitle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2021\/01\/29\/gaelic-speech-recognition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gaelic Speech Recognition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,6,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-call","category-community","category-research","category-ugc","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}