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...
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...
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...
by Gareth Watkins | Jun 30, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
Communities Taking Control At the end of the last blog we highlighted the importance of trainining AI on data that faithfully reflects different linguistic and cultural communities in order to ensure that AI models ar inclusive. As we have already discussed in this...
by Gareth Watkins | Jun 9, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
The Doom Spiral! In issue 1 of this series, we saw that the Welsh language is short of quality data – and that the Token Crisis threatens smaller languages more than others. But what would happen if the quality of the sparse data that is being created started to...
by Gareth Watkins | May 26, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence
Looking beyond Wales Welcome back to the long awaited second part in our blog series which sets out to underline the importance of respecting culture in the context of Artificial Intelligence, or AI. If you missed the first blog go here to read it before reading this...
by Gruffudd Prys | Mar 24, 2026 | Uncategorized, Uncategorized
The need to fight to be allowed to use your language if you want to use it outside the circle of family and friends who know it is one of the constant experiences of being a Welsh speaker. From having to specifically ask for a Welsh language form at the dentist (which...
by Gareth Watkins | Oct 31, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Uncategorized
Welcome, dear reader, to the first instalment in a new series of blogs which attempt to underline the importance of culture in the context of technology, focusing on one of the shining stars of technology, namely Artificial Intelligence, or AI. AI has now permeated...
