Results and publications
All ÈIST output in one place
Applications and Models
- Scottish Gaelic Whisper-based speech recognition model
- The ÈIST speech recognition web-app
- Opening the Well, the volunteer-based Gaelic folklore transcription site.
Demo videos
- Tutorial on using the ÈIST web-app on YouTube.
- Tutorial on volunteering with Opening the Well on YouTube
Publications
- Devine, P., Lamb, W., Alex, B., Ezeani, I., Knight, D., Ó Meachair, M. J., Rayson, P. & Wynne, M. (2026) ‘GaelEval: Benchmarking LLM Performance for Scottish Gaelic’, in Proceedings of Shaping Multilingual, Multimodal AI for the Social Sciences and Humanities (LLMs4SSH) @ LREC 2026, 73–85. ELRA. Paper here.
- Lamb, W., Han, D., Klejch, O. & Bell, P. (2026) ‘Text-only Domain Adaptation for Low-Resource ASR Using Large Language Models’, in Proceedings of Shaping Multilingual, Multimodal AI for the Social Sciences and Humanities (LLMs4SSH) @ LREC 2026, 95–102. ELRA. Paper here.
- Klejch et al. (2025) ‘A Practitioner’s Guide to Building ASR Models for Low-Resource Languages: A Case Study on Scottish Gaelic’. Paper here.
- Wells, D., Richmond, K. & Lamb, W. (2023) ‘A Low-Resource Pipeline for Text-to-Speech from Found Data, with Application to Scottish Gaelic’, Proc. Interspeech 2023, 4324–4328. Paper here.
- Evans, L., Sinclair, M., Lamb, W. & Alex, B. (2022) ‘Developing Automatic Speech Recognition for Scottish Gaelic’, Proceedings of the 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop. Paper here.
- Sinclair, M., Lamb, W. & Alex, B. (2022) ‘Handwriting Recognition for Scottish Gaelic’, Proceedings of the 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop. Paper here.
Talks
- Prof Lamb’s inaugural lecture on AI and Scottish Gaelic