Highlights​

• More recordings happening, in home studio and at Acadamh, and going through Transtool recordings uploaded.
• Joeys LLM is making great progress at translating English to Irish.
• Minister of Gealtacht expected to come sometime in September.

Amanda

• working with Aifric and Muireann on contacting publishers, getting permission for corpus materials for MGNN, and cleaning up stories for it.
• More recordings happening, in home studio and at Acadamh, and going through Transtool recordings uploaded.
• Great moment with Dylan, a boy with phocomelia without arms, using An Scéalaí to dictate.

Joey

• Showing outputs of the Irish LLM. Does a good job at translating from English to Irish.

Ciadhla

• Looking through existing child data & Rob’s word on child synthesis, building test voice to learn the synthesis pipeline.

Oskar

• Setting up Backoffice API infrastructure & cloud storage infrastructure. Fixing dictation system. Updating Infrastructure documentation.

Neasa

• In talks with Max from Australia to join us in February/March.
• Minister of Gealtacht coming sometime in September.

Highlights​

• Liam Maloneand Finn are back!
• Cadhla might work on synthesis.
• Minister of the Gaeltacht invited to visit the lab.
• Development updates on An Scéalaí and Meall an Óige.

Highlights​

• The Official ABAIR Van is under development!
• Irish classes 1:00, online Mondays and Fridays.
• Progress on Meall an Óige, Míle Glór na nÓg and Fotheideal.
• Ready for recording speech in An Rinn.
• More students starting soon.

Highlights​

• Ár gcomhchairdeas mór le John Sloan agus babaí úr aige! 🥳
• New members: Joe, Anna M., Ciadhla.
• Work progressing on Irish LLM training, organising a trip down to Rinn together to set up Fionait.
• Ongoing improvements to the Míle Glór na nÓg platform features, ABAIR authentication system and discussions about Deachtú editor.
• Progress on children's recording prompts.

Actions​

• Send Ailbhe and Neasa dates of upcoming leave.

Highlights​

• Reports from UK Speech held in York - possible link ups with researchers working on Manx and Sami.
• Fotheidil performance massively improved - especially where background noise is present.
• Combined Arts & Humanities funding application for €950,000 GPU machine passed first round in College.
• Anna introduced as new member - will be working as an artist for MAO.

Highlights​

• Míle Glór na nÓg web app up and running
• New ABAIR website in the works!
• Joey working with UCC on new LLM.

Highlights​

• DCU text corpus finally accessed, but data duplication an issue.
• Attempting to improve recognition by using LLMs to generate diverse sentences with Irish placenames.