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The ‘Aina Challenge’, the competition endowed by the Catalan Government with €1M to finance up to 22 AI and language technology projects in Catalan, has started
The Aina Challenge is the program to accelerate the use and development of AI tools in Catalan promoted by the Catalan Government and developed by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) within the framework of the Aina Project. Companies in the [...]
Aina Kit resources are presented during the week of MWC25
The resources and models developed by the Aina Project, promoted by the Generalitat de Catalunya and developed by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, have been the protagonists of some of the presentations during the week in which Barcelona has hosted a [...]
Aina participates in the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium 2024
Researchers from technical team of the Aina Project are participating in the Barcelona Deep Learning Symposium 2024 to present the latest speech technologies. Among the researchers present at the event, Marc Casals , Federico Costa , Daniel Tamayo and Àlex [...]
Aina presents Catalan speech resources and technologies in Portugal
The researchers of the Aina Project, Alex Peiró, Carme Armentano, Jose Giraldo, Carlos Mena, Abir Messaoudi, Sarah Solito and Federico Costa. Researchers from the Aina Project travel to Portugal to present the latest developments in speech technologies. Iberspeech [...]
Join us to the SAGA Gaming Salon with the Aina Project
The Aina Project invites you to attend the SAGA Gaming Salon held on November 29, 30 and December 1 at La Farga de l'Hospitalet de Llobregat It is a great experience for video game fans and a great opportunity [...]
Aina Hack ends with a great success!
20 teams participated in the Aina Hack, with a total of 68 participants All teams worked throughout the 24-hour duration of the Aina Hack until the very end. The result shows the talent and interesting proposals that were proposed [...]
Aina Hack starts: the competition promoted by the Government to solve challenges of the Catalan Administration with AI resources generated by the Aina Project
The general director of Digital Economy and Society, Sandra Ruiz, and the Secretary of Telecommunications and Digital Transformation, Albert Tort, today kicked off the hackathon at Espai Bital, in Hospitalet de Llobregat For 24 uninterrupted hours, 68 participants from a [...]
Aina’s technologies were recognized during SEPLN 2024
The SEPLN International Congress is the key event on language technologies organized by the Spanish Society of Natural Language Processing . Aina's technologies have been recognized during this year's edition of SEPLN, held in Valladolid from September 24 to 27. [...]
The Government promotes Aina Hack, a hackathon to solve challenges for the Catalan Administration with AI
November 8th and 9th at Espai Bital (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat). Registrations open until October 31st. The Espai Bital, in Hospitalet de Llobregat, will host the Aina Hack on November 8 and 9, a hackathon promoted by the Generalitat de Catalunya [...]
How to optimize a TTS model with multiple speakers
The research that is part of the Aina Project, promoted by the Generalitat de Catalunya , aims to develop a digital infrastructure for Catalan. At the same time, researchers work to achieve new improvements following the excellence in research developed [...]
The Common Voice corpus: optimism and pending challenges
The publication of the latest Common Voice dataset confirms the consolidation of Catalan as the language with the most recorded hoursand validated on the platform. It is very good news for the Catalan linguistic community and for the development of [...]
Aina presents the most advanced and open source AI resources
The Aina Project shared the latest technological advances during this year's edition of LREC-Coling 2024. The event took place between May 20 and 25 in Turin, Italy. Among the various developments, researchers from the Language Technologies Unit of the Barcelona [...]