September 12th ABAIR Meeting
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Highlights
- Prototype of the new website is live: click here
- Offline synthesis working for Android and iOS! - should be ready to demonstrate on Geabaire in a few weeks.
- Liam gave great talk at the comhdháil.
- Wants to get Louis Cullen to do 4th Year project with ABAIR on CAPT.
- Will follow up with students who have ben putting in claims with very little evidence of work done.
- Agreed that beter organisation and communication regarding staffing is needed.
- Hoping Amanda will look at the topic of acquisition in Irish by designing corpora.
- Encountered error with Fotheidil on audio recording of a neighbour. John to investigate.
- New date for 'coiste comhrá' (sp?) mid September.
- Asked about accomodation for Oireachtas - still nothing booked.
- Mon afternoon looking like best time for the next ABAIR meeting.
- Recommended creating a simplified version of MíleGlórNaNóg for adults for the website.
- Recommended adding extra dialects for synthesis on home page.
- Interspeech 2026 in Sydney in September - 5 months to get papers together.
- Has a recent graduate who wants to come work on the API. Asked Neasa & Ailbhe who said to go ahead.
- Raised the issue of students claiming full time hours but doing very little work.
- Will work on implementing better onboarding documentation and communication between staff.
Tamás
- Recommended Ciadhla keep the model she trained as it may be useful later.
- Reminded us of his recommendation for Clockify for monitoring students work.
- Gave update on new website - added functionality for translations. Live to view at dev.abair.ie
- Offline synthesis working for Android and iOS. Could be production ready in 2 weeks. Definitely will have a demo ready for the Oireachtas.
- Piper voices would be a huge amount of additional work.
- Also mentioned that better onboarding would help - felt a bit lost as a new recruit about who to go to regarding various issues.
- Trained an average voice from scratch to test performance. Just over 100 epochs. Happy with the result, and confident we can get a good result once we get the baseline models.
- Wants to audit a module or two this coming year.
- Offered her dad's house in Downpatrick for the Oireachtas.