John Sloan

Highlights​

• Andy and Ronan in Mayo for recordings.
• Thomas coming from Finland at beginning of September to work with us for 3 months.
• Amanda to send out a survey about Oireachtas attendance.

Highlights​

• Meeting with TG4 pushed back from September to October.
• COGG have asked Amanda to come present to them.
• Julie heard from someone Gaeltacht sites of UG wanting to use Geabaire ond other ABAIR resources in their courses.

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.