TaFiDiAi - Taligenkänning för Finlandssvenska Dialekter genom Artificiell Intelligens

Background and goals

In this project, sponsored by Svenska Kulturfonden/ The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, the parties will cooperate by gathering speech data in various Swedish dialects, developing speech recognition algorithms, and deploying and testing the algorithms with Swedish-speaking people from across Finland. The aim of the project is thus twofold. First, we gather open access labelled speech dialect data of Finnish Swedish populations from across Finland for developing a set of ASR technologies. Then we invite users to test them for perception, trustworthiness, and competence.

Abstract

A speech recognition research project developing and testing AI algorithms that will understand some of the different Swedish-speaking dialects across Finland has been launched by Arcada University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with Åbo Akademi University and StageZero Technologies.

In this project, sponsored by Svenska Kulturfonden/ The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, the parties will cooperate by gathering speech data in various Swedish dialects, developing speech recognition algorithms, and deploying and testing the algorithms with Swedish-speaking people from across Finland. The aim of the project is thus twofold. First, we gather open access labelled speech dialect data of Finnish Swedish populations from across Finland for developing a set of ASR technologies. Then we invite users to test them for perception, trustworthiness, and competence.