Category: Machine Translation
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Two Conferences in Two Weeks
Sjá íslenska þýðingur neðar Within the next two weeks the Language and Voice Lab will be participating in two conferences: Máltæknibyltingin – Stafræn nýsköpun íslenskunnar and Northern European NLP conference NoDaLiDa Máltæknibyltingin – Stafræn nýsköpun íslenskunnar The target audience for this conference is the general public. It will showcase our work for the past two…
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Can you preserve Icelandic voices with text-to-speech engines?
On July 11th, Tengivagninn on the Rás 1 attempted to answer this question and many more in an interview with Jon Gudnason and Ragnheiður Þórhallsdóttir. Practical information about the radio program is below: Language: Icelandic Name of show: Tengivagninn Station: Rás 1 Date: 11. 07. 2020 Air time: 13:26 Interviewer: Fanney Benjamínsdóttir Duration: approximately 17…
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ACL 2020 Student Research Workshop paper is now out
Sjá íslenska þýðingu neðar Last week ACL hosted their 2020 ACL conference. It was supposed to be in Seattle, Washington. But due to COVID-19 it has been moved online, including their satellite events like the ACL 2020 Student Research Workshop (SRW). This means their proceedings have now been published, including a paper by our very…
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First milestone in the Language Technology for Icelandic project
Last week we celebrated achieving the first milestone in the Language Technology for Icelandic project with a cake! After a lot of hard work the past few months we achieved the first milestone in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Machine Translation (MT). In ASR, the focus has mostly been on data creating and gathering. 55,000 utterances…
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