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MWC 2026: Cap a una integració d’Aina en l’àmbit dels videojocs
Durant la setmana del MWC 2026, l'equip tècnic del Projecte Aina ha explicat en què consisteix el desenvolupament de models de reconeixement i síntesi de veu. En concret, com a través de la generació de corpus de veu en català [...]
Aina explains the integration of voice models in video games during SAGA 2025
More than 9 thousand people visited the SAGA Gaming Show during the weekend of December 28, 29 and 30. A figure higher than the 8000 attendees last year. The Aina Project has also strengthened its presence and almost half a [...]
Aina Territorial Intelligence begins, the competition that promotes AI solutions in Catalan to reduce social and digital gaps
The initiative will recognize nine finalist proposals with 2,000 euros each and, from these, will select three winning projects with 44,000 euros to develop each solution. Until January 26, 2026, companies, entities and consortia with experience in artificial intelligence (AI) [...]
The Aina Challenge promotes 22 innovative solutions to promote the business adoption of artificial intelligence in Catalan
The competition has selected 18 entities that will use resources generated by the Aina Project to demonstrate its maturity and viability in real environments. Social care, health, justice, education, tourism and audiovisual are some of the key areas addressed by [...]
Aina’s technical team presents its research in advanced speech technologies in Catalan at Interspeech
This Sunday, August 17, the new edition of the Interspeech conference kicks off. It is the most important annual conference in the field of voice technologies. Part of the Aina Project technical team will travel there to present and share [...]
First step in promoting an artificial intelligence system to facilitate access to public information in plain language
This is a proof of concept promoted by the Secretariat of Digital Policies of the Department of Business and Labor and developed by the BSC-CNS within the framework of the Aina Project, with the collaboration of the EADOP and the [...]
Success in the Aina Challenge call to accelerate AI projects in Catalan
Up to 85 proposals received to develop AI proofs of concept in Catalan More than 50 companies have submitted projects to the call, of which 22 will be selected for development. The fields of health, information, administration and Catalan in [...]
Introducing the Salamandra’s family of models
The Salamandra model has versions of 2, 7 and 40 billion parameters. All resources are available for integration through the Aina Kit. The different versions of the Salamandra family of models are now available. There are 3 different versions, the [...]
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 [...]













