Deep Learning for Speech Processing (1st edition) 10 hour (4 session) summer course July 13th to July 16th 2026, 15:00 – 17:30 CET. 1 ECTS · 250€ More info: https://www.hitz.eus/dl4sp/
Aholab in the media: La Mecánica del Caracol
Radio Euskadi In this interview on La Mecánica del Caracol (Radio Euskadi), Inma Hernáez presents the latest open speech models developed at HiTZ Center for Language Technology and Aholab, starting at minute 20. https://guau.eus/m/radio-euskadi-ciencia-tecnologia-e-historia-20260331-2105
BrAIn2lang: new website
The BrAIn2Lang website is now online. This project explores how speech and language can be decoded from brain activity, bringing together neuroimaging and speech technologies. https://aholab.ehu.eus/brain2lang
[Applications closed] Hiring 1 researcher
Applications are now closed. Thank you for your interest. In the frame of the brAIn2lang project, we are looking for a highly motivated candidate with:- MSc in AI, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Neuroscience, or related field- Strong background in machine learning and deep learning- Solid Python skills (e.g., PyTorch or TensorFlow)- Interest in...
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Announcement: Special Session at Odyssey 2026
Odyssey: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop📅 June 23–26, 2026, Lisbon, Portugal We’re pleased to announce the Special Session on Speech and Language Technologies in Healthcare at Odyssey 2026: a dedicated forum bridging speech & language research with real-world health applications. This session brings together interdisciplinary work on clinically grounded and deployable speech and language…
Resources at ELRA
The EMG-Voc ReSSint Database has been made publicly available through ELRA. https://islrn.org/resources/057-914-072-202-4 https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0498
Aholab at CIFE 2026
Aholab researchers presented two contributions at the X Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental (CIFE 2026), showcasing recent advances in neural voice personalization and dialect-aware speech synthesis. Iñigo Hierro MugaEvaluación sistemática de estrategias de personalización de voces basadas en redes neuronales. Mariana Flores RíosPersonalización dialectal de sistemas de síntesis de voz: experimentos para el español mexicano…
LibriBrain 2025: 1st position
This year, we took part in the LibriBrain Competition 2025, an international challenge presented at NeurIPS 2025 aimed at advancing the decoding of language from non-invasive brain signals using the large-scale LibriBrain dataset. The competition seeks to foster progress in brain–computer interfaces, with the long-term goal of restoring communication abilities in individuals with speech impairments…
AhoSAPI: TTS for Windows
AhoSAPI, the app that allows the use of our voices in Windows systems is available again. Use voices in Spanish, Basque, Galician and Catalan, or even your personalized voices if you are a user of AhomyTTS. Get it at https://aholab.ehu.eus/aholab/es/ahosapi/
Hiring 3 researchers
WARNING: THE POSITIONS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ASSIGNED Available positions: 3 Job Description: We are looking for three people from the IT or telecommunications field, with a passion for artificial intelligence and neural networks. Responsibilities: Design, implement and optimize speech processing algorithms using neural networks. Collaborate with the team to improve the accuracy and efficiency of...
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Talk: “Voces Sintéticas personalizadas: para qué sirven? El proyecto AhoMyTTS”
Tuesday, June 12th 17:30 ADELA – ARABA During the course of certain diseases, such as ALS, the ability to speak fluently can be lost. However, this should not mean losing communication with our surroundings: family members, caregivers, and others. This can be made possible through electronic devices that allow us to produce messages using a…
Aholab and Bluesky
Our activity on the social network Bluesky begins. From now on, you can find us at https://bsky.app/profile/aholab.bsky.social.
Discussion panel: #euskarabildua
https://peertube.euskarabildua.eus/w/ccVszL6Bwhsb6jm7Q6jbZL
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Job Offer Closed: Researchers in Voice Creation and Recognition
Contract duration: 16 months Available positions: 0 (both have been assigned) Job Description: We are looking for two people from the IT or telecommunications field, with a passion for artificial intelligence and neural networks. In this exciting project, you will work on developing and refining voice creation and recognition systems. Responsibilities: Requirements: Benefits: If you are…
Basque Speech Recognition System available
From the Aholab Group and the HiTZ center we present to the public the new speech recognition system in Basque. This technological advance has the potential to transform the interaction between people and technology, especially in the field of the Basque language. The system has been trained with 548 hours of Basque voices from different…
Ate irekien jardunaldia
Gurekin ikastera etortzea pentsatu dutenei, egiten duguna azaltzen diegu. Ate irekien jardunaldia – Bilboko Ingeniaritza Eskola – UPV/EHU
Cine y Ciencia 2024
Participamos en el evento Cine y Ciencia, una iniciativa organizada conjuntamente entre la Filmoteca Vasca, el Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) y el Festival de Cine de San Sebastián. Tras la proyección de la película Mars Express comentaremos más detalles sobre la película y nuestra investigación. https://dipc.ehu.eus/eu/zientzia-gizartea/ciclo-de-cine-y-ciencia/mars-2
Basque Parliament Speech Corpus available
The Basque Parliament Speech Corpus 1.0 consists of 1462 hours of speech extracted from Basque Parliament plenary sessions from 2013 to 2022. Encoded as MP3 files, the dataset contains 759192 transcribed segments either spoken in Basque, Spanish or both (in Basque and Spanish). https://huggingface.co/datasets/gttsehu/basque_parliament_1
Euskararen Eguna: Erronka
Aste honetan Euskararen eguna da! 🥳 Ospakizun honen harira, GAITU proiektuan parte hartzera gonbidatzen zaitugu. 🌟 Zer egin behar duzu? Euskarazko audio batzuk balioztatzeko zure denbora pixka bat eskatzen dizugu (15 min). 🏆 Eta sariak? Parte hartzeagatik, unibertsitateko kafetegian erabiltzeko gosari-bonoak emango ditugu 😋 📢 Nola parte hartu? Zatoz Bilboko Ingenieritza Eskolako kalkulu zentro hauetara: ...
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Talleres de comunicación Bizilabe: ¿Non dago Teleko Ingeniaria?
22/11/2023 Marta Camacho e Inma Hernáez https://bizilabe.elhuyar.eus/eu/bizilabe-bilbo/albisteak/bilboko-bizilabeko-gazteek-stem-profesionalen-bisita-jaso-dute
Oracle4Girls: Talleres presenciales en Bilbao
11/11/23 11:30h «¿A qué nos dedicamos las ingenieras de telecomunicación?» Ponente: Inma Hernaez, Doctora y Catedrática en Ingeniera de Telecomunicaciones https://oracle4girls.x-ternalmarketing.es/eventos-anteriores/?evento=talleres-presenciales-bilbao
In the Media: De Tardeo
Entrevista en el programa ‘De Tardeo’, contando AhomyTTS. https://www.ivoox.com/65957404 [del minuto 11 al 25]