In this paper, we describe a new national language technology programme for Icelandic.
The programme, which spans a period of five years, aims at making Icelandic usable in …

In this paper we describe how a fairly new CLARIN member is building a broad collection of
national language resources for use in language technology (LT). As a CLARIN C-centre …

The biggest challenges we face in developing LR and LT for Faroese is the lack of existing
resources. A few resources already exist for Faroese, but many of them are either of …

This paper describes an Icelandic pronunciation dictionary for speech applications and its
processing for use in a text-to-speech system for Icelandic. Cleaning and correction …

All performed speeches in the Icelandic parliament, Althingi, are transcribed and published.
An automatic speech recognition system (ASR) has been developed to reduce the manual …

We present Gamli, an ASR corpus for Icelandic oral histories, the first of its kind for this
language, derived from the Ísmús ethnographic collection. Corpora for oral histories differ in …

Foreign words, such as names, locations or sometimes entire phrases, are a problem for any
system that is meant to convert graphemes to phonemes (g2p; ie converting written text into …

In the past few years, automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become an important com-
ponent in human-computer interaction. It is crucial for less-resourced languages, such as …

We present a new method for preparing a lexical-phonetic database as a resource for
acoustic model training. The research is an offshoot of the ongoing Project Ravnur (Speech …

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are increasingly used to transcribe text for
publication or official uses. However, even the best ASR systems make mistakes that can …