On Wednesday, September 13, two projects were presented in the museum's lecture hall by the Center for Digital Humanities and Arts.

Trausti Dagsson from the Árna Institute and Luke O'Brien presented Speech Recognition on Ísmús and the development of a text library for older spoken language, which was done in collaboration with the Árna Institute and the technology company Tíró and involved creating a speech recognition system that was trained with audio recordings from the Icelandic Folklore Museum. The recordings have now been made searchable and accessible.

Bragi Þorgrímur Ólafsson from the National Archives of Iceland and Unnar Ingvarsson from the National Archives of Iceland presented the Icelandic base in Transkribus. The Transkribus software was created with the purpose of creating an Icelandic base for handwritten texts from the 18th and 19th centuries. The project was carried out in collaboration with experts from the National Archives of Iceland and the National Library of Iceland. The Icelandic base can be accessed by downloading the Transkribus program.

In addition, Una Haraldsdóttir, a history student, spoke about her project on the diaries of Sveinn Þórarinsson (Nonni and Manni's father) and her experience using Transkribus in that project. You can learn more about Una's project on the website Akureyri.net