Fiontar

Biographical Details:

Léachtóir in Fiontar, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath é an Dr Brian Ó Raghallaigh agus tá sé faoi láthair páirteach i mbainistiú agus i bhforbairt theicniúil na tionscadail ainm.ie, focal.ie agus logainm.ie. D'oibrigh sé roimhe seo ar an tionscadal ríomhchainte Gaeilge abair.ie ag Coláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath. Tá cúlra aige sa ríomheolaíocht, sa teangeolaíocht agus sa Ghaeilge, agus chríochnaigh sé a thráchtas Ph.D. ar fhóinéimiú ilchanúnach don Ghaeilge, ag Coláiste na Tríonóide freisin.

Dr Brian Ó Raghallaigh is a lecturer in Fiontar, Dublin City University and is currently involved in the technical management and development of the ainm.ie, focal.ie and logainm.ie projects. He previously worked on the Irish synthesis project abair.ie at Trinity College Dublin. He has a background in computer science, linguistics and Irish, and completed his Ph.D. thesis on multidialect phonetisation for Irish, also at Trinity College Dublin.

Research Interests:

Gaeilge, foghraíocht, fóineolaíocht, teicneolaíocht urlabhra, teangacha réigiúnacha agus mionlaigh, acmhainní Gréasáin.

Irish, phonetics, phonology, speech technology, regional and minority languages, Web resources.

Selected Books

• Ó Raghallaigh B. Fuaimeanna na Gaeilge, Cois Life, 2013.

• Welby P., Ní Chiosáin M., Ó Raghallaigh B., The production of eclipsed consonants among young speakers of Irish, 7th Celtic Linguistics Conference (CLC7), 22-JUN-12 - 23-JUN-12, Rennes, France
• Welby P., Ní Chiosáin M., Ó Raghallaigh B., A phonetic investigation of Irish eclipsis: preliminary results and challenges, 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), 17-AUG-11 - 21-AUG-11, Hong Kong, China, 2122 - 2125
• Welby P., Ní Chiosáin M., Ó Raghallaigh B., An experimental phonetic investigation of Irish initial consonant mutations, 6th Celtic Linguistics Conference CLC6, 10-SEP-10 - 12-SEP-10, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Welby P., Ní Chiosáin M., Ó Raghallaigh B., Une enquête phonétique préliminaire des consonnes initiales mutées de l'irlandais, Phonlex 2010, 08-SEP-10 - 10-SEP-10, Toulouse, France
• Měchura M. B., Ó Raghallaigh B., The Focal.ie National Terminology Database for Irish: software demonstration, Euralex 2010, 06-JUL-10 - 10-JUL-10, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
• Měchura M. B., Ó Raghallaigh B., User-Friendliness: the key to promoting a minority language on the Internet, International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML) XII, 28-MAY-09 - 30-MAY-09, Tartu and Võru, Estonia
• Ní Chasaide A., Ó Raghallaigh B., Irish text-to-speech synthesis and possible educational applications, Mercator Media Seminar "Linguistic diversity and the media: strategies and resources for language acquisition", 26-JAN-07 - 26-JAN-07, Cardiff, Wales
• Ní Chasaide A., Wogan J., Ó Raghallaigh B., Ní Bhriain Á., Zoerner E., Berthelsen H., Gobl C., Speech technology for minority languages: the case of Irish (Gaelic), Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP, 17-SEP-06 - 21-SEP-06, Pittsburgh, United States
• Wogan J., Ó Raghallaigh B., Ní Bhriain Á., Zoerner E., Berthelsen H., Ní Chasaide A., Gobl C., Developing a Spoken Corpus and a Synthesiser for Irish, 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages, 22-MAY-06 - 28-MAY-06, Genoa, Italy
• Wogan J., Ó Raghallaigh B., Ní Bhriain Á., Zoerner E., Berthelsen H., Ní Chasaide A., Gobl C., Developing text-to-speech for Irish (Gaelic), Colloquium of British Academic Phoneticians, 10-APR-06 - 12-APR-06, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Ó Raghallaigh B., Berthelsen H., Sintéis na Gaeilge agus Corpas Urlabhra, 10ú Comhdháil do Theangeolaíocht na Gaeilge, 01-APR-06 - 01-APR-06, Glasgow, Scotland
• Ó Raghallaigh B., Corpus Collection and Developing Letter-to-Sound Rules, SLSCS Postgraduate Seminar, 01-FEB-06 - 01-FEB-06, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Ní Bhriain Á., Ó Raghallaigh B., Acmhainní próiseála urlabhra don Ghaeilge agus don Bhreatnais, WISPR Satellite Workshop of the 11th Annual Conference of the North American Association for Celtic Language Teachers (NAACLT), 09-JUN-05 - 12-JUN-05, Bangor, Wales
• Ó Raghallaigh B., Ní Bhriain Á., Ní Chasaide A., Wogan J., Anótáil chorpais urlabhra Ghaeilge, 9ú Comhdháil do Theangeolaíocht na Gaeilge, 09-APR-05 - 09-APR-05, Dublin, Ireland
• Wogan J., Ó Raghallaigh B., Ní Bhriain Á., Irish TTS synthesis, Current Issues in Speech Science, 01-APR-05 - 01-APR-05, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Ó Raghallaigh B., Ní Bhriain Á., Ní Chasaide A., Wogan J., Acmhainní próiseála urlabhra don Ghaeilge agus don Bhreatnais (WISPR), 8ú Comhdháil do Theangeolaíocht na Gaeilge, 30-APR-04 - 01-MAY-04, Dublin, Ireland