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Blas Research

Speech technology for the Celtic languages, built with the communities that speak them.

Blas builds the kind of language technology the big platforms skip: speech recognition, text-to-speech, and learning content for Irish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Breton, Cornish, and Manx. The data is small and the stakes are personal, so we work in the open and we source carefully.

This is where we publish what we are doing: the models, the methods, the datasets, and where every line of content comes from. It is also where you can test our prototypes, review them, and lend your own voice.

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Lend your voice. Get paid for what is accepted.

Blas is building a peer-reviewed Celtic speech and text corpus with the communities who speak the languages. Record words and sentences, review other speakers, and write dialect versions of our content. Other speakers review every contribution, and you are paid for each one accepted into the app and the corpus.

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