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Recordings

At ABAIR, we record and transcribe a lot of speech to train our models. This mainly involves going to Gaeltacht areas and recording native speakers in a mobile studio.

Equipment

See the equipment section for a list of all our equipment.

Studio Setup

See our guide to setting up a mobile studio.

Recording

We record both adults and children, with different prompts and procedures for both:

Transcription

All the audio we collect needs to be transcribed. Guides for how to do this and the tools used can be found in the transcription section.

Reports

Read reports of previously carried out recording sessions.

People

The following staff members are actively involved in the recording and transcribing of voices:

Places

We record in the following locations:

  • Ring
  • Gweedore
  • Mayo
  • ...