A new project to develop digital technology for Gaelic speakers has been awarded six hundred thousand pounds through the Scottish Government’s CivTech programme.
The AITEAL project will record up to five hundred hours of spoken Gaelic over the next eighteen months, helping to develop tools such as speech-to-text software, translation services and Gaelic-language artificial intelligence chatbots.
The project is expected to create four jobs, including three fieldworker posts in rural communities, and aims to support the future use of Gaelic through new technology.
Scottish households are being urged to check their post for letters about a one-hundred-and-fifty-pound reduction in their energy bills this winter.
Around three hundred and forty-five thousand households in Scotland will receive the Warm Home Discount automatically this year, an increase of around two hundred and fifty thousand following changes to the scheme.
Letters will arrive between now and January, confirming whether the rebate will be applied automatically or whether households need to contact a helpline to claim it.
Those asked to provide further information must do so by the twenty-sixth of February.
The Stroke Association is calling for round-the-clock access to emergency stroke treatment in Scotland, saying the country is falling behind the rest of the UK.
Thrombectomy, a procedure to remove blood clots, is available during restricted hours at only three Scottish centres in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee.
The lifesaving treatment has been made available around the clock in Northern Ireland.
Ross County will be looking to retain its unbeaten run and its position at the top of League One,
when it travels to play Queen of the South in Dumfries this afternoon.
Inverness Caley Thistle has a home match in the Championship against Arbroath.
Both games kick off at three o'clock.
