Research blog
Releases, methods, and datasets behind Blas speech and language technology.
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The blas. Grammar Checker is here
The blas. Grammar Checker is public today: a browser extension that checks spelling, grammar and punctuation in Irish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Cornish, Breton and English, underlines mistakes as you type, and explains the rule. What it does not do, where it works, and what stays on your device.
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The new blas. dictionary
How the new blas. dictionary works: one search box for Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Breton, Cornish and Manx, mutated and conjugated forms traced back to the word you need, a "backed by real text" check on meanings, and the same lookups inside ChatGPT and Claude.
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The new blas. grammar tables
How the new blas. grammar tables work: every prepositional pronoun in one chart, each irregular verb across all its tenses, and a mutation chart with a word mutator, for Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Breton, Cornish and Manx.
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blas. Monthly Roundup: September 2026
The third blas. monthly roundup, sent 30 September 2026 and covering August and September together because we skipped the August edition: friends and weekly leaderboards, blas dictation on iPhone and Mac with Android coming in October, a 0 to 3,000 fluency rating, and what is coming in October - blas writing for all six languages and speaking lessons for Welsh and Scots Gaelic.
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blas. Monthly Roundup: July 2026
The second blas. monthly roundup: speaking lessons on the Irish course rebuilt around voice messages and our own Irish speech recogniser, blas joining 1% for the Planet, and two things coming in August, Blas dictation and Blas writing.
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blas. Monthly Roundup: June 2026
A roundup of what we shipped in June 2026: the Contribute studio, our Irish dictation model, the blas archive, and new practice modes, plus Cornish and Manx joining the app.
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Blas-IE: the #1 open Irish speech-to-text model
We set out to build the best Irish speech-to-text model in the world and make it open source. We did both - Blas-IE is #1 on BlasBench, ahead of Microsoft Azure, ElevenLabs and every open model we tested.