Irish English

noun

the English language as spoken in Ireland; Hiberno-English.

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The team contended with various linguistic challenges of Irish English.

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Irish English is also rhotic, meaning the “r” is overpronounced.

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They relied heavily on an existing speech model of primarily British-English accents — with a far smaller range of American, Canadian and Australian accents — to train it to speak Irish English.

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Irish English, said Mr. Cotescu, who is Romanian and was the lead researcher on the Irish Alexa team, “is a hard one.”

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When they asked, she described herself as “Irish, English, French, Native American, and Hungarian.”