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JOKER workshop at CLEF 2025

Papers from the workshop "JOKER: Automatic Humour Analysis" have now been published in the proceedings of CLEF 2025, the 16th Conference and Labs of the …

New Project on the Scientific Preparation of a Federal Large-Scale Language Model (Bundes-LLM)

Brigitte Krenn is starting a new R&D service project: Scientific preparation of a federal large-scale language model.

The study addresses technological and societal aspects …

Launch of the GermanDialects-AI project

We are happy to announce the official launch of the project German Dialects: Document, Preserve and Learn with the help of AI.

The project officially …

Interspeech Paper

INTERSPEECH 2025 took place in Rotterdam where OFAI was represented by Lorenz Gutscher and Michael Pucher. Their paper "Audio-Based Classification and Geographic Regression of Austrian …

Article: Austrian Dialect Classifier

Lorenz Gutscher and Michael Pucher had an interview with Jana Wiese - a journalist for futurezone.at and Kurier. The outcome is a nice article that …

Article: Austrian Dialect Classifier

Lorenz Gutscher and Michael Pucher had an interview with Jana Wiese - a journalist for futurezone.at and Kurier. The outcome is a nice article that …

Citizen Science Award

We’re excited to announce that our project DialektDetect has been nominated for the Citizen Science Award by the OeAD!

After training an AI model …

KI und Stimmen @ Bundes-Blindeninstitut

While Text-to-Speech systems might seem like a convenient gadget to some, they can be life-changing for blind or visually impaired individuals.

In a recent workshop …

DialektDetect @ Wiener Forschungsfest 2025

In this citizen science project, we explore how well humans and AI can identify Austrian dialects based solely on audio. Participants placed location markers on …

OFAI's presentation of LEGO Audio & Braille Building Instructions at the Wiener Forschungsfest 2025 - a big success!

OFAI presented LEGO Audio & Braille Building Instructions at the Wiener Forschungsfest 2025. In two and a half days approx. 400 visitors built small LEGO models …