DigiSami and digital natives: Interaction technology for the North Sami language

K Jokinen, K Hiovain, N Laxström, I Rauhala… - Dialogues with Social …, 2017 - Springer
The DigiSami project operates in the general context of revitalisation of endangered
languages, and focuses on the digital visibility and viability of the North Sami language in …

[PDF][PDF] New technologies for spoken dialogue systems: LLMs, RAG and the GenAI Stack

G Wilcock - 14th International Workshop on Spoken …, 2024 - researchportal.helsinki.fi
The paper describes some recent developments in Generative AI that can be applied in
spoken dialogue systems, with a central theme of retrieval augmented generation from …

Building open-source speech technology for low-resource minority languages with sámi as an example–tools, methods and experiments

K Hiovain-Asikainen, S Moshagen - … of the 1st Annual Meeting of …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents a work-in-progress report of an open-source speech technology project
for indigenous Sami languages. A less detailed description of this work has been presented …

Enabling spoken dialogue systems for low-resourced languages—end-to-end dialect recognition for North Sami

TN Trong, K Jokinen, V Hautamäki - 9th International Workshop on …, 2019 - Springer
In this paper, we tackle the challenge of identifying dialects using deep learning for under-
resourced languages. Recent advances in spoken dialogue technology have been strongly …

Internationalisation and localisation of spoken dialogue systems

N Laxström, G Wilcock, K Jokinen - Dialogues with Social Robots …, 2017 - Springer
In modern software development, localisation is a straightforward process–assuming
internationalisation has been considered during development. The localisation of spoken …

[PDF][PDF] Researching less-resourced languages: the digisami corpus

PK Jokinen - International Conference on Language …, 2019 - researchportal.helsinki.fi
Increased use of digital devices and data repositories has enabled a digital revolution in
data collection and language research, and has also led to important activities supporting …

What topic do you want to hear about? A bilingual talking robot using English and Japanese Wikipedias

G Wilcock, K Jokinen, S Yamamoto - Proceedings of COLING …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
We demonstrate a bilingual robot application, WikiTalk, that can talk fluently in both English
and Japanese about almost any topic using information from English and Japanese …

Bringing Cognitive Infocommunications to small language communities

G Wilcock, K Jokinen - 2017 8th IEEE International Conference …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive infocommunications systems extend our cognitive capabilities by providing fast
infocommunications links to huge repositories of information produced by the cognitive …

Towards long-term relations in social robot interactions

K Jokinen, G Wilcock - Proceedings of HRI Workshop …, 2019 - cares.blogs.auckland.ac.nz
Towards Long-Term Relations in Social Robot Interactions Page 1 Towards Long-Term
Relations in Social Robot Interactions • Impact of the new technology on everyday life • Wide …

[PDF][PDF] Acoustic features of different types of laughter in North Sami conversational speech

K Hiovain, PK Jokinen - … of the LREC Workshop Just talking …, 2016 - researchportal.helsinki.fi
Acoustic features of different types of laughter in North Sami conversational speech https://helda.
helsinki. fi Acoustic Features of Different Types of Laughter in North Sami Conversational …