"Faster technological progress and more efficient delivery of public services is one of the Ministry's priorities. Therefore, in order to increase this progress and preserve the correct Lithuanian language through the widespread use of advanced technologies and improve the quality of services, we are funding the development of AI solutions related to the Lithuanian language. These projects will increase innovation that will help solve everyday challenges for both businesses and citizens," said Andžej Trachimovič, Vice-Minister of the Economy and Innovation.
The first project will develop a Lithuanian medical phonetic system. EUR 520 000 has been earmarked for this project. The second project will finance the development of monolingual and parallel medical textbooks, for which €240,000 has been allocated. This phonetic system and textbook will contribute to the development of solutions for speech recognition and automatic text generation in medicine. It will also save doctors' time by allowing them to perform routine tasks automatically.
The third project will develop a phonetic system for the Lithuanian language to create neural voices for speech synthesis. This will cost €680,000. This phonetic system will allow people without in-depth linguistic knowledge to design and develop AI-based speech synthesis solutions, resulting in a neural voice that is a natural match to the human voice. It will also be used in healthcare, legal, education and other systems where human speech is at the heart of service delivery. It will also help people with speech disabilities.
The fourth project will fund the development of monolingual and parallel text libraries for defence and security. EUR 240 000 has been earmarked for this. The developed textbook will be publicly available and can be used to develop new machine translation systems and to improve machine translation and AI-based services in defence and security.
The fifth project will develop a textbook of question-answer pairs. It has been allocated €770 000. It will be particularly useful in the field of machine learning or in fine-tuning communicating robots. The use of the question-answer textbook would cover e-government services. It will also be useful for companies setting up and developing e-shops.
The measure to develop digital resources for the Lithuanian language is being implemented under the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Next Generation Lithuania, funded by the European Union's NextGenerationEU Recovery and Resilience Instrument.
