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# Macsen - a Welsh language voice Assistant app for Android and iOS
# Macsen - a Welsh language voice assistant app for Android and iOS

Macsen is an open source Welsh voice assistant app for Android and iOS devices. You can ask Macsen
in Welsh language speech for information or for it to perform a task.
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- Provide information on the **weather** [[Fideo](http://techiaith.cymru/pecynnau/macsen/#fideo-tywydd)]


- Play music by Welsh language artists on **Spotify** [[Fideo](http://techiaith.cymru/pecynnau/macsen/#fideo-spotify)]

- Show a television program through the **S4C Clic** website.
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## Create your own Macsen

Along with the app's code, all of Macsen's components for speech and linguistic artificial intelligence technology
are open source and permissevely licensed for use by other developers. Documentation on Macsen's software and how to
adapt, expand and develop your own Macsen can be found in [docs/README_en.md](docs/README_en.md).
Along with the app's code, all of Macsen's more sophisticated speech and linguistic components are open
source and permissevely licensed for use by other developers. Documentation on Macsen's architecture and
on adapting and developing your own customized Macsen can be found in [docs/README_en.md](docs/README_en.md).

In the meantime, we are doing further research and development to improve it, and to enable Macsen in other
situations.
In the meantime, we are continously working on improving Macsen and its core language technologies.


## Acknowlegements

Work on Macsen has been funded by the Welsh Government.

However, Macsen would not be possible without the work of other open source projects and communities. We’d like to thank
Mozilla for its speech technologies and their excellent [CommonVoice speech data crowdsourcing website](https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/cy)
Macsen would not be possible without the work of other open source projects and communities. We’d like to thank
Mozilla for its work on speech technologies and their excellent [CommonVoice speech data crowdsourcing website](https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/cy)
and [DeepSpeech speech recognition library](https://github.com/mozilla/deepspeech). They simply rock.

Macsen’s intent parsing is based on [MyCroft’s Padatious library](https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/mycroft-technologies/padatious)
while provision of open source text-to-speech is due to [MaryTTS](https://github.com/marytts/marytts)
while provision of open source text-to-speech is based on [MaryTTS](https://github.com/marytts/marytts)

Wed like to give a huge thanks to all the volunteers who have contributed their voices via the CommonVoice website and/or
the Macsen app for enabling Welsh speech technology. We would like to thank S4C, Golwg360 (the Welsh language website),
Welsh Wikipedia volunteers and the wider Welsh speaking community for their support of Macsen.
We'd like to give a huge thanks to all the volunteers who have contributed their voices via the CommonVoice website and/or
the Macsen app for helping us and others improve Welsh speech technology. We would like to thank S4C, Golwg360 (the Welsh
language website), Welsh Wikipedia volunteers and the wider Welsh speaking community for their support of Macsen.


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