Guest lecture by Per Egil Kummervold on April 22nd

Next Monday, April 22nd, the IN5550/IN9550 course will again welcome a guest speaker. This time, it's Per Egil Kummervold from the AI lab of the National Library of Norway.

IMPORTANT: this is an in-person lecture, not a Zoom call! Please do come to the seminarrom Perl at 12:15, and you'll get a chance to talk to our speaker.

Per Egil is a well-known researcher in the field of Norwegian speech and language processing. In particular, he was heavily involved in training pioneering models like NB-BERT and NB-GPT-J.

But on Monday, he will talk about a more recent project at the National Library: a set of Norwegian text-to-speech models known as NB-Whisper. They are based on the Whisper model by OpenAI, and trained on data from Spr?kbanken and the Library's own corpora.

The lecture is titled "Advancing Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Large Language Models". See you there!