Category: Speech Recognition
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Language Technology Seminar this Saturday
The cooperation between LVL and other leading icelandic organizations is increasing. Tomorrow Reykjavik University and Societas Scientiarum Islandica (Vísindafélag Íslendinga) are holding a seminar and panel discussion on the current progress and the future of implementing language technologies for Icelandic. It will be held at Reykjavik University room M105. Hrafn Loftsson, of LVL, will be…
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Researchers’ Night
This Friday is Researchers’ Night (Vísindavaka Rannís 2018). It is an all ages event on the 28th of September, 2018 from 16:30 – 22:00 at Laugardalshöllin, Reykjavik. We will be there with Reykjavik University demonstrating the possibilities of speech with tech: evaluating collected speech data (Eyra), testing the accuracy of an automatic speech recognizer(ASR) –…
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Student Projects Available
For the students of Reykjavik University or summer exchange students, we now have a list of student projects available. They are on https://lvl.ru.is/student-projects/ or available from the Menu of the LVL website as Student Projects. They range from straight forward to difficult and are suitable for undergraduate final projects, Masters students, and PhD students. If you…
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Using language technology to assist the hard of hearing
The Nordic association of the hard of hearing (Nordiska Hörselskadades Samarbetskommitté, NHS) had a seminar at Hotel Selfoss last week. On Friday, Anna gave a talk there on how language technology might assist people hard of hearing to communicate and access information in a predominately hearing world. Automatic transcription of live communication and automatic caption…
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RANNIS Infrastructure grant 2018 – Awarded.
The complexity of neural network models increases every year and it takes a lot to keep up with computational hardware fast enough to train them efficiently. Earlier this year, we applied to the RANNIS Infrastructure Fund for funding to expand our current HPC cluster. We are happy that our proposal “Deep Learning Infrastructure for Speech…
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First conference of the year is LREC!
This year, Jón will be representing our LVL group at the LREC 2018 conference happening this week in gorgeous Miyazaki, Japan. Jón will be presenting the paper, “Open ASR for Icelandic: Resources and a Baseline System.” As co-author, Anna, says, “The paper describes the language resources used in the project Open ASR for Icelandic: the Málrómur…
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Open Icelandic ASR unveiled at the Language Technology Seminar
On the 27th of April, we will be presenting the web portal for our project, a Free and Open Speech Recognition for Icelandic. The ASR will be the opening topic of the Language Technology Seminar, followed by other language technology talks and presentations. The seminar takes place at Reykjavík University, room M101 on Friday, April…
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ASR: A SMASHING HIT AT UTMESSAN!!!
On Saturday Róbert and Anna also presented a prototype for an automatic speech recognition web service for general Icelandic (Vefgátt fyrir íslenskan talgreini). This speech recognizer for Icelandic will be made available to the public later this spring.
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Does the future understand Icelandic? – UTMessan Talk
On Friday, LVL will be at the UTMessan conference being held here in Reykjavik. UTMessan is a IT conference presented in both Icelandic and English. The talk, “Skilur framtíðin íslensku? (Does the future understand Icelandic?)” will be presented by Anna Björk. This will be our first time presenting at UTMessan so we are very excited.…
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