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
BrAIn2lang: new website
Hiring 1 researcher
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 speech processing and/or neural signal decoding– Excellent written and spoken…
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
Open position closed: Deep learning approaches for speech restoration from biosignals obtained from the movements of the face
In the framework of the DeepRestore project, acquired EMG signals will be converted into speech. Combination with lip-reading modality will also be tested. The main tasks for the candidate will be: a) taking part in the design and performing of EMG and video recordings b) to process and prepare the acquired signals c) to investigate...
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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
Presentations: ASR and diarization.
In the scope of the ILENIA project, we have performed two presentations on different parts of the work: Automatic Speech Recognition, and Diarization.
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
Aholab in the media: La mecánica del caracol
https://eitb.eus/A_Y3YmVY/ Minuto 29: Todas las aplicaciones que usamos de tecnología basada en el procesamiento del lenguaje necesitan grandes bases de datos para aprender. Los gobiernos de Euskadi y navarra y la Oficina pública del euskera hanpuesto en marcha, dentro del proyecto Gaitu, una campaña para recoger grabaciones de frases en euskera. Estas grabaciones se sumarán…
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
Quédate con Ane (etb2): Gaitu.eus
El proyecto Gaitu.eus pretende recopilar voces de muchas personas con el fin de poder desarrollar sistemas de reconocimiento de voz en euskera utilizando inteligencia artificial. Inmaculada Hernáez, profesora de ingeniería de la UPV/EHU nos habla de la importancia de que la gente participe. https://www.eitb.eus/es/television/programas/quedate-con-ane/videos/detalle/9362094/en-proyecto-gaitu-lo-importante-es-que-gente-se-anime-que-grabe-que-valide-y-que-participe/
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
Job opportunities
Open position on Bilingual Speech Transcription Open position on Multilingual Spontaneous Speech Transcription Open position on Personalized Speech Synthesis
Evaluación subjetiva de audios sintetizados con YourTTS
YourTTSekin sortutako ahotsak ebaluatu behar ditugu eta jendea behar dugu ahalik eta azkarren osatzeko. Nahiko presaka goaz, emaitzak otsaileko lehen asterako behar ditugulako. 4 test daude, hizkuntzaren arabera eta ahotsak sortzeko erabili den materialaren arabera. Euskaraz badakizue, mesedez egin laurak eta, bestela, gutxienez gaztelaniazkoak. Eta mesedez, bidal iezaiezue lagunei, ikasleei eta ebaluazioa egin dezakeen edonori....
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In the Media: Faktoria (Euskadi Irratia)
GPT3 adimen artifiziala elkarrizketatu du “Faktoria”k, irrati eta zientzia esperimentazioan, gure ahotsak erabiliz. https://www.eitb.eus/eu/irratia/euskadi-irratia/programak/faktoria/osoa/9005671/gpt3-adimen-artifiziala-elkarrizketatu-du-faktoriak-irrati-eta-zientzia-esperimentazioan/
Ressint Project: ASLABI
On Thursday, October 27, 2022, we presented the ReSSInt project at the headquarters of ASLABI, the Biscay Association of Laryngectomized Patients,in Bilbao. We had a friendly meeting with the associates and we answered the questions they asked us. We also explain what the recording process consists of. Several people volunteered to make the recordings, which…
Secretos de las Telecomunicaciones
Framed into the European Researchers’ Night Initiative, part of the work from Aholab will be presented in the event Secretos de las telecomunicaciones, Telekomunikazioen sekretuak, on Friday September 30th.
Open position: Programa Investigo
El trabajo propuesto consiste en la investigación de estrategias para reducir las necesidades de cómputo y permitir la integración de las voces neuronales sintéticas en dispositivos móviles. Buscamos a una persona con competencias en programación, que deberá estar inscrita en Lanbide. Proposatutako lana estrategiak ikertzea da, kalkulu-beharrak murrizteko eta ahots neuronal sintetikoak gailu mugikorretan integratzea...
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Jornadas de Puertas Abiertas: Bloque TICs
Presentación del trabajo de Aholab a estudiantes de secundaria dentro de las Jornadas de Puerta Abiertas de la Universidad de Pais Vasco.
In the Media: Capaces de Comunicar
Inma Hernáez: La tecnología de voces artificiales.
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In the Media: Periódico Bilbao
“Makinak norberaren ahotsaz hitz egin dezan”, entrevista en el periódico municipal de Bilbao. www.bilbao.eus/periodicobilbao/202107/html5forpc.html?page=34
In the Media: Norteko Ferrokarrila
“Ahotsa sintetiko pertsonalizatuak, ahotsa galdu dutenei hitza emateko” hitzaldiaren aurkezpena, Euskadi Irratiko Norteko Ferrokarrilan. https://zientzia.eus/zientzia-irratia/norteko-ferrokarrilla-ahots-sintetiko-pertsonaliza/
In the Media: Aragon TV
AhoMyTTS explained in AragonTV News service https://www.cartv.es/aragonnoticias/noticias/investigadores-vascos-han-creado-un-banco-de-voces-online-para-donar-la-voz?utm_source=rssfeed&utm_medium=feed&utm_content=annoticias&utm_name=feed
System evaluation
Como parte de la evaluación de los trabajos realizados en el proyecto ELKARTEK Mintzai tenemos una prueba de evaluación de comprensión de textos una vez reconocidos en un idioma, traducidos y sintetizados. Hay dos versiones diferentes, una para señales en castellano y otra para euskera. En cada una de ellas, se presentan seis audios y...
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In the Media: De Tardeo
Entrevista en el programa ‘De Tardeo’, contando AhomyTTS. https://www.ivoox.com/65957404 [del minuto 11 al 25]
Webminar HITZ
01/02/2021: Webminar by Inma Hernaez and Eva Navas, presenting the Ressint project in an HITZ weminar.
In the media: HiTZ Center inauguration
Naiz: La UPV-EHU pone en marcha el centro HiTZ, referente en tecnologías lingüísticas Diario Vasco: Nace Hitz, un nuevo centro de la UPV para ser un referente en las tecnologías lingüísticas
Aholab in the Media
A raíz de la difusión de AhoMyTTS se han producido las siguientes apariciones en los medios de comunicación: UPV/EHU: Cátedra de cultura científica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAwKsNqul_A 19 de febrero de 2019 Euskadi Irratia: Faktoria https://www.eitb.eus/eu/irratia/euskadi-irratia/programak/faktoria/osoa/6720646/inma-hernaez-ehuko-aholab-laborategian-ahots-sintetikoak-sortzen-dituzte/ 7 de octubre de 2019 Vozpópuli:Al rescate de las voces ‘robadas’ https://www.vozpopuli.com/altavoz/next/rescate-voces-robadas-ELA_0_1303670824.html 27 de noviembre de 2019 Cadena SER: A Vivir: Las…
Aholab at Bilbao Antzerki Dantza
The “BILBAO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY THEATRE AND DANCE” organizers have arranged a Professional Encounter where we have been invited to present our AhoDubber system, an idiomatic help for live shows, within the talk “SOBRETITULAR TU ESPECTÁCULO PARA EL MERCADO INTERNACIONAL” http://badbilbao.eus/web/bad-2019/encuentros-profesionales/
Gailuekin solasean
Berria egunkarian ahozotasuna aztertzeko aukera izan dugu: https://www.berria.eus/paperekoa/1909/038/001/2019-10-01/gailuekin-solasean.htm
ZureTTS Project in the radio
Cadena Ser performed the program “A vivir que son dos días” in Bilbao, and there was some time to present our ZureTTS. https://play.cadenaser.com/audio/001RD010000005737941/
Bizintek 2018 Award
Our teammate Javier has been nominated for the Bizintek 2018 Award “Premio Bizintek 2018 al Proyecto de Fin de Grado para Ingenieros”, with his work “Modelo basado en redes neuronales para la predicción de disponibilidad de un sistema urbano de préstamo de bicicletas”. https://bizintek.es/articulos/aqui-estan-los-finalistas-de-premios-bizintek-2018 Congratulations!
Ikerbasque: Open Call
Ikerbasque – the Basque Foundation for Science, has launched a new call offering 20 positions for postdoctoral researchers. These five year Fellowships are directed to promising young researchers; they are intended to offer a track towards a PI role and independent research. For more information: IKERBASQUE CALL
“Zientzia kaiera”
Inma has presented a video in the Chair of Scientific Culture, in the frame of the #Zientzialari program, where basque researchers explain basic scientific concepts. #Zientzialari 108