The Austrian Language Project (T-ALP) aims to improve automatic speech recognition of Austrian German. Specifically, it focuses on Austrian German as it is typically spoken in the media such as TV and radio as well as podcasts but, at least at present, does not try to cover the wide dialectal and sociolectal variety of German spoken in Austria. The project was presented at the conference Building a European Cultural Backbone (ECB2022) at the Stadtwerkstadt in Linz, Austria.

I initially became involved in this project when I met Alexander Baratsits, one of the founders of the Cultural Broadcasting Archive (CBA). The …

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