Development of technologies for voice-based communication with the digital world in Galician and Spanish
Creation of datasets for conversational assistants
Led by Balidea and the AtlanTTic research centre at the University of Vigo, FalAI is an initiative that aims to develop technologies enabling people to speak Galician in the digital world. To this end, we have created a tool that has enabled us to compile the world's largest open dataset for virtual assistants in any language.
SLU dataset design
Design of data collection campaigns
Validation of methodologies
Selected by the European Language Equality Programme (ELE)
Presentado en META-FORUM 2023
Number of recordings
Recording hours
Number of participants
Participants aged 50+
Support received
Balidea and AtlanTTic were selected by the European Language Equality (ELE) initiative to promote linguistic equality in Europe's digital sphere.
Promoting linguistic equality in the digital sphere
As with many other European languages, the necessary resources to develop this type of technology, especially with regard to recording a diversity of voices, do not exist in Galician. Together with AtlanTTic, Balidea was selected by the European Language Equality (ELE) initiative to promote linguistic equality in Europe's digital sphere.
Objective
Collect examples of Galician voices that can be used to train artificial intelligence and share what has been learned with the whole of Europe
Generate datasets
In specific areas such as healthcare, nursing care, or administrative procedures
Share knowledge
The aim is to design and validate a methodology for gathering and sharing the voices of people from countries with minority languages.
#a30frases
Campaign for a general appeal for contributions via the platform falai.balidea.com
Contribution
Participants are asked to record themselves reading thirty sample conversation sentences with virtual assistants, which are provided through the platform
Social media
The initiative is being promoted on Facebook and Instagram in order to reach the largest possible audience
Intergenerational
Younger people are asked to help their parents and grandparents so that they can also participate, as they are a priority group, and specific actions are being carried out to collect voices in nursing homes
