New PhD Project in Speech Recognition

On April 2nd, Dávid í Lág started a new PhD research position at the University of the Faroe Islands. Dávid holds a degree in computer science with a specialization in data science and machine learning from the IT University of Copenhagen. The PhD project aims to research automatic speech recognition (ASR) for smaller languages, focusing on the Faroese language. In recent years, ASR has become a part of [...]

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At an Inspiring Conference in Italy

Staff from the Centre for Language Technology at the University of the Faroe Islands attended the major conference LREC-COLING2024 in Turin, Italy, from May 20-25. This year, the conference was a merging of two conferences, LREC (Language Resources and Evaluation Conference) and COLING (International Conference on Computational Linguistics). This academic conference had nearly 3,000 participants and 1,500 presentations on various topics and the latest research

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Annika Graduating with a Master's in Language Technology

One of our own, Annika Simonsen, is graduating with a Master's in Language Technology from the University of Iceland on February 23rd. The thesis focused on testing the abilities of GPT-4, an advanced language model, with the Faroese language. By translating from Faroese to English, analysing sentiments, and classifying topics, the project explored how well GPT-4 understands Faroese.

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Audio Collection for Speech Recognition

The Danish company Dictus is currently working on developing Faroese speech recognition. This speech recognition will work on Dictus SUN, which is a programme that can transcribe what you're saying on Windows, Mac, and Chromebook computers. The foundation of a speech recognition lies in large amounts of sound and text. To make the speech recognition even better

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