Episode 1 of the Digital Humanities podcast
May 18, 2023 at 1:50 pm
The first episode of the Digital Humanities podcast "Speech Corpora" has been released, in which Haralds Matulis talks to Ilze Auziņa, a senior researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Latvia.
The recording is available on the YouTube channel "Digital Humanities in Latvia", the Spotify channel "Klausītava" and the National Library of Latvia's SoundCloud digital repository.
The first episode is devoted to the study of speech corpora today, the history of text and speech corpora, the specifics of live language research and artificial intelligence training in Latvian. The host Haralds Matulis interviews Ilze Auziņa, a senior researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Latvia, about speech recognition in Latvian, and how philologists and other humanities-trained researchers can enter the field of computational linguistics and language technologies.
In the Digital Humanities webcast, we talk to interesting DH personalities about the latest DH research in Latvia. The programme is jointly organised by the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia and the National Library of Latvia.