maltawinds.com Posted by Vento on Minister for the Economy and Industry Silvio Schembri announced three projects that, with the use of Artificial Intelligence, will lead to the use of the Maltese language in the education and industry sectors to be on par with foreign languages. With an investment of more than €161,000, they will lead to the Maltese language being written, understood, and processed in the technology we use every day. This was stated during a press conference portraying a successful collaboration between the Malta Digital Innovation Authority (MDIA) and the University of Malta. Minister Schembri explained how Artificial Intelligence is being explored as an assistive tool in the education sector and even in industry. He highlighted the benefits of the three projects, called Speech Processing, Text Processing, and Edu AI. He illustrated how, through the ‘Speech Processing’ project, researchers are assisted in making the systems understand the spoken language, so that it can be processed and translated into action. Through this assistance, over 100 hours of data will be created to help with language processing. Through the ‘Text Processing’ project, researchers will be strengthening the relevant technical tools so that written Maltese is understood and processed. Meanwhile, the ‘Edu AI’ project is exploring how Artificial Intelligence can serve as an assistive tool in the education sector. Children will be constantly interacting with technology, where it will assist them in academic development, thus instilling in them the importance of Artificial Intelligence from a young age.