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Using the LARA Little Prince to compare human and TTS audio quality
Samples of audio totalling about five minutes, representing the same four passages taken from LARA versions of Saint-Exupèry’s “Le petit prince”, were provided for each language in both human and TTS form; the passages were chosen to instantiate the 2x2 cross product of the conditions dialogue, not-dialogue and humour, not-humour.
Challenges in assistive technology development for an endangered language: an Irish (Gaelic) perspective
The need for skilled researchers with a deep knowledge of Irish structure is illustrated in the case of (ii) and (iii), where aspects of Irish linguistic structure (phonological, morphological and grammatical) and the striking differences from English pose challenges for systems aimed at bilingual Irish-English users.
Using LARA to create image-based and phonetically annotated multimodal texts for endangered languages
We describe recent extensions to the open source Learning And Reading Assistant (LARA) supporting image-based and phonetically annotated texts.
Using Speech and NLP Resources to build an iCALL platform for a minority language, the story of An Scéalaí, the Irish experience to date
This paper describes how emerging linguistic resources and technologies can be used to build a language learning platform for Irish, an endangered language.
Automatic Speech Recognition for Irish: the ABAIR-ÉIST System
This paper describes ÉIST, automatic speech recogniser for Irish, developed as part of the ongoing ABAIR initiative, combining (1) acoustic models, (2) pronunciation lexicons and (3) language models into a hybrid system.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
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Celtic CALL: strengthening the vital role of education for language transmission
Given the key role of education for the transmission of all the Celtic languages, it is vital that digital technologies be harnessed to maximise the effectiveness of language teaching/learning.
AAC don Ghaeilge: the Prototype Development of Speech-Generating Assistive Technology for Irish
This paper describes the prototype development of an Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) system for the Irish language.
Reading Assistance through LARA, the Learning And Reading Assistant
We present an overview of LARA, the Learning And Reading Assistant, an open source platform for easy creation and use of multimedia annotated texts designed to support the improvement of reading skills.
Low-resource speech recognition and dialect identification of Irish in a multi-task framework
This setting is then used to train a model with an E-branchformer encoder and the performance of both architectures are compared.
Towards spoken dialect identification of Irish
Motivated by this, the present experiments investigate spoken dialect identification of Irish, with a view to incorporating such a system into the speech recognition pipeline.
Towards dialect-inclusive recognition in a low-resource language: are balanced corpora the answer?
ASR systems are generally built for the spoken 'standard', and their performance declines for non-standard dialects/varieties.
