Bartley hopes the technology can support and improve current projects such as Culture Vannin’s initiative – an organisation that promotes local culture – to ask a native speaker to transcribe old recordings every year. <\/p>\n
“That can take hours and hours, and I think it is a situation where technology could increase the productivity of that person, and then that person can do something else like teaching the language or creating a course.<\/p>\n
“There is lots of potential there – not to replace people, but be an addition to the creativity of the community,” Bartley said.<\/p>\n
“There’s a massive community behind Manx that are really driven to the revival of the language and to create resources.” <\/p>\n
The technology’s pronunciation of Manx Gaelic is informed by the data that Bartley feeds it.<\/p>\n
He said: “When considering what data to give it, I need to make sure it is good Manx.”<\/p>\n
The tool was also “really important because if you have a visually impaired person, as it stands, unless they participate in a completely spoken session, Manx is pretty much inaccessible to them,” he said. <\/p>\n
“So text-to-speech technology extends the availability of Manx to them,” he continued.<\/p>\n
Bartley, who has been learning Manx since 2023, said that he had made Culture Vannin aware of the tool, and he said he hopes to make it available to access online. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bartley hopes the technology can support and improve current projects such as Culture Vannin’s initiative – an organisation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-413314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}