Oral histories to help create hi-tech Gaelic digital assistant
Voice-activated digital assistants that speak Scottish Gaelic could be one step closer thanks to a hi-tech advance by university experts that has made use of oral histories and traditional storytelling.
Voice-activated digital assistants that speak Scottish Gaelic could be one step closer thanks to a hi-tech advance by University experts.
A team of linguists and Artificial Intelligence specialists has developed software that can listen to spoken Gaelic and print it out as written text.
Now, researchers hope to upgrade the technology so it not only prints what it hears, but responds verbally too – just like voice assistants such as Siri, Alexa or Google.
The speech recognition system can already provide subtitles for online video content. It can also help those who are learning the language and support Gaelic-medium schoolchildren with dyslexia, the researchers say.
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