Liam Lonergan

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.

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​

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