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Syth bin, “straight bin”: why spoken Welsh has the edge over the machine

by Dewi Jones | Oct 29, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence

What’s behind Trawsgrifiwr Byw, and why it isn’t a simultaneous interpreter Trawsgrifiwr Byw (Live Transcriber) is a desktop app that listens to spoken Welsh and writes what it hears on screen as you speak, showing an English translation beneath each sentence almost...

The Welsh language, its Culture, and Artificial Intelligence – Issue 5

by Gareth Watkins | Oct 19, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence

Sovereignty AI Sovereignty can be defined, simply, as the need for nations to secure their own AI ecosystems [1]. According to Singh and Sengupta: “With artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly becoming the foundation for economic, military, and civic life, many...

Running small language models locally with LM Studio

by Matt Russell | Oct 6, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence

Running small language models locally with LM Studio You don’t need a cloud API or a GPU cluster to experiment with language models. Modern laptops can run relatively small models locally—including a model that converses in Welsh—and LM Studio makes the whole...

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  • Syth bin, “straight bin”: why spoken Welsh has the edge over the machine
  • The Welsh language, its Culture, and Artificial Intelligence – Issue 5
  • Running small language models locally with LM Studio
  • The Welsh language, its Culture, and Artificial Intelligence – Issue 4
  • The Welsh language, its Culture, and Artificial Intelligence – Issue 3

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