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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 …