The Welsh Government has supported ground-breaking work to secure a more prominent place for the Welsh language in the technology we use every day.
This makes our language better prepared for artificial intelligence (A.I) developments, the Minister for Education and Welsh Language will say today (20 February 2024).
Since the publication of the Welsh Language Technology Action Plan in late 2018, the Welsh Government has created and commissioned resources and data to improve technology in the Welsh language. It has also supported the development of voice technology in Welsh, and the development of Welsh language in A.I.
Some of the plan's achievements include developing technology to turn spoken Welsh into typed text, creating synthetic voices for people who lose the ability to speak, developing specialist machine translation, and working with the company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, to improve how their most powerful chatbot, GPT-4, processes the Welsh language.
As part of the Welsh Government’s partnership with Microsoft, they have also collaborated to create a simultaneous interpretation facility within Microsoft Teams meetings. This facility is provided at no additional cost to existing Teams users. Work continues with Microsoft to further develop this facility with the hope that this will lead to the creation of similar and new resources for languages spoken around the world, based on the work here in Wales.
For further information please select the following links:
- Welsh language better prepared for artificial intelligence developments, thanks to Welsh Government investment | GOV.WALES
- Welsh language technology action plan: final report 2018 to 2024 | GOV.WALES
Using just a little bit of Cymraeg in your business can make a big difference. Helo Blod is your fast and friendly Welsh translation and advice service. And it's free. For further information please select the following link: Welcome to Helo Blod | Helo Blod (gov.wales)