Muireann Nic Corcrain

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.