"Vitlíki" is the Word of the Year of 2023

Í dag var ársins orð fyri 2023 kosið. Ársins orð gjørdist vitlíki, sum er føroyska orðið fyri Artificial Intelligence (AI). Ársins orð undirstrikar, at vitlíki er vorðin partur av dagsins samfelagi og hevur týdning og ávirkan bæði í arbeiðs- og privatlívi.  Vitlíki er ein stórur partur av máltøkniligum arbeiði. Ofta hugsa vit fyrst um stórar […]

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GPT-SW3 understands Faroese

Should we use large language models, based on major languages, or should we develop our own? AI Sweden believes that developing our own models is more sustainable, and thus, they created the large-scale generative language model GPT-SW3. Trained on Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and English data, the model performs well in Nordic languages.

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At a Conference in Sweden

Barbara Scalvini, lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Technology, and Iben Nyholm Debess, Ph.D. researcher and coordinator at the Centre for Language Technology, attended the Learning with Small Data (LSD) conference organized by The Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) at the University of Gothenburg. They participated with the poster titled 'Leveraging GPT-SW3 for Faroese to English translation.'

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Speech Recognition in your Pocket

Now you can get Faroese speech recognition on your phone and computer. The app VoisIT, created by Andras Eliassen, can transcribe what you say – in Faroese! You can read more about the app and download it by clicking here. The app uses a Faroese sound model made by Carlos Mena and Annika Simonsen that is mainly

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