Like other small languages, Faroese struggles to establish its presence in the digital world. Globalization and the development of large language models in major world languages place increasing pressure on smaller languages. This makes it essential to identify solutions that ensure Faroese not only survives but also thrives in [...]
Trends in 2024: Language Technology Collaboration in the Nordics Read More »
The Centre for Language Technology at the University of the Faroe Islands and the publisher Fróðskapur have signed an agreement allowing texts published by Fróðskapur to be used for the development of Faroese language technology. The agreement is part of the Faroese MegaWord Corpus project, which aims to gather large amounts of Faroese texts for various purposes. This text corpus can, for example, be used
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Now it’s possible to use Faroese speech recognition directly on Windows computers! The program, called Dictus Sun, has been developed in a collaboration between the Talutøkni Foundation and the Danish company Dictus. The Centre for Language Technology has also provided consultation on linguistic matters for this project. This program allows you to write in Faroese with your voice, without using the keyboard.
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The Centre for Language Technology is now collaborating on the TrustLLM project. This is very exciting and positive for the Faroese language. The TrustLLM project is a collaboration between various institutions and universities from European countries. The Centre for Language Technology at the University of the Faroe Islands functions as an external collaborator. TrustLLM develops reliable multilingual large language models (LLMs), focusing on European languages and
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