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Language Technology Programme for Icelandic 2019–2023 — Open Speech and Language Resources for a Small Language

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A five-year national programme building open-source Icelandic speech recognition, synthesis, machine translation and spell-check so a ~small language stays usable in digital services. Outputs are verifiable; user-level impact is not yet evaluated.

Details

Promoter
Almannarómur, Center for Language Technology (funded by Iceland's Ministry of Education, Science and Culture)
Period
2019–2023
Keywords
language technology, speech recognition, open data, digital inclusion

Description

Iceland's Language Technology Programme for Icelandic 2019–2023, coordinated by Almannarómur and funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, aims to make Icelandic usable for communication and interaction in the digital world through open, accessible language resources and software.
It comprises five core projects: language resources, speech recognition, speech synthesis, machine translation, and spell and grammar checking, delivered by a consortium of universities, institutions and private companies (Nikulásdóttir et al., LREC 2020).
A verifiable output is the Samrómur corpus (SLR112, released May 2021): about 145 hours and 100,000 validated utterances from 8,392 crowd-sourced speakers, built by Reykjavik University's Language and Voice Lab with Almannarómur and released under CC BY 4.0.
Caveat: the sources document the programme design and open resources, not outcomes for end users (e.g. accessibility gains for people with disabilities or migrants learning Icelandic). Evidence is therefore of outputs, not of impact.

Read the full analysis: https://openslr.org/112/

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