blas.blas.Releases, methods, and datasets behind Blas speech and language technology.
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.
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.
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.