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I know Iām a bit late to this topic, but I just found it and I canāt say how much I love this idea! I have three gamer children, and they put up with me talking to myself in Welsh as I wander the house and trying to talk to them in Welsh as I am able to. My middle child is interested in learning more, but gets overwhelmed with SSI. Training dragons, however, would be right up his alley! I showed this to my husband, a programmer, and he says it might be a bit more difficult than people might think, for the dragon to listen to speech and respond to correct speech, but since the program would only have to listen for a specific sequence of phonemes, itās not nearly as difficult as, say, machine learning, etc.
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Yup, this seems to be the key that makes it genuinely possible - weāve started talking to speech recognition experts at Bangor University - their major concern is about client-side vs server-side speech recog kits - at the moment itās pretty much only workable as a server-side thing, but they are right now in the middle of a project with Mozilla to release client-side kits, which would make what weāve got in mind possible - should apparently be in the next few monthsā¦ 
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Is this happening? When? I donāt get online much, Iād love it if someone would share a link if it exists already - or tell me the target date for this fundraiser so Iāll know when to look for it !! My daughter will go crazy!! Sheās wanted a pet dragon her whole life (has a large collection of stuffed ones), and watches the āhow to train your dragonā movies constantly. This would play right into her fangirl dreams!
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Ooh, awesome - weāve kind of had all our bandwidth swallowed up by scaling our advertising this year - but another month or two and we should have everything looking a bit more straightforward thereā¦ at which point weāll be able to give some more focus to the next steps with the dragonā¦
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Prydferth! Just started my 6 months challenge and came across this in the forum section. I have a 4-year-old and a 2-year-old and Iām sure they would love the draig. What a brilliant move to talk to Bangor U to get them involved. How about doing the same with the best animation/illustrator students from the best welsh unis to create the demo? I think linking universities is the best, most professional, win-win, innovative way to get your demo. And wouldnāt the welsh government be interested in supporting the development of this app? what a fantastic way to get closer and closer to the million Cymraeg speakers!
Now, Dw I angen dysgu Challenge 2.
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Thatās a really good idea - will definitely give that some thought when we manage to get this project moving again - bit short on time/seed money right now (and weāve never had any luck getting any support from the government, unfortunately) - but Iām confident weāll be moving along well before the end of the yearā¦
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