Welsh language technology and artificial intelligence (AI): updates

Over the past few years, we’ve been working hard to improve technology to help more people to use Welsh in everyday life. 

Here are our current priorities:

• improving technology to increase the daily use of Cymraeg
• making sure everyone can access Welsh language technology
• improving Welsh language artificial intelligence (AI) and speech and language technologies (by sharing data and other means)

This Written Statement explains what steps we’re taking to achieve this.

We’ll continue to publish the latest updates on this page.

A summary of our work from the previous year is available on Welsh language technology and artificial intelligence (AI): summary.

UNESCO shares Wales' experience with the world

Wales' experience of bringing the Welsh language into the digital world has been included as a leading international example in a new UNESCO toolkit. 

The Practical Toolkit for Supporting Multilingual Digital Services (available on the UNESCO website) draws on Wales' expertise in Welsh language development for websites, apps and public services. It adapts the Welsh Government's bilingual technology toolkit for an international audience, providing practical guidance to other countries and communities, particularly those with lesser-resourced languages and indigenous languages. 

Read the full announcement. 

New category to Helo Blod list of tools and resources: workplace

We've expanded our list of Welsh language technology tools and resources on Helo Blod with a new category for the workplace. 

The category brings together technology tools and resources to help people use more Welsh in the workplace and work more bilingually. 

View the Welsh language technology tools and resources on Helo Blod. 

New partnership with Cosine

We've announced a new partnership with sovereign AI company Cosine to help improve how AI works in Welsh. 

As part of the partnership, the Welsh Government will signpost Cosine to publicly available resources and data to help improve how Cosine's Lumen AI model understands and processes the Welsh language. The work helps to ensure that the Welsh language is fully represented in the technologies that people use every day. 

Read more about the partnership with Cosine.

Priorities for the Welsh language

“And we need to respond to opportunities, and challenges, in terms of technology. We're already leading the world in this area. In Wales, bilingual meetings are very common. And Wales is the first place in the world where bilingual transcription is possible in Microsoft Teams. And I'm writing to big tech companies to discuss the next steps, including advances in artificial intelligence.”

The Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language outlined her priorities for the Welsh language at Plenary on 7 July 2026, including Welsh technology and AI as part of building foundations that sustain the language.

New category for Helo Blod list of tools and resources: Parents and Carers

We want to make it easier for parents and carers of children and young people to use more Welsh. 

We’ve expanded our Helo Blod list of tools and resources to include a dedicated section for parents and carers to help children and young people use more Welsh in school and beyond the classroom.

Technology Grants

For 2026 to 2027, Welsh language technology grants have been awarded to: 

• Bangor University to deliver the Iriaith project, developing and improving Welsh-language data, AI models and technology tools. 
• Data Orchard to deliver the Mapio Cymru project, developing and enriching open Welsh geographic data. 
• The National Library of Wales to deliver the Wici Cymru a’i Phobl project, expanding Welsh content and information online through the use of open data and Wiki platforms. 
• Cardiff University to deliver the Development, Use and Integration of NLP Cymru CyTag Services project, developing and deploying a new Welsh language technology infrastructure. 

The projects will report back on the progress and results of their work at the end of March 2027.

The Welsh technology resources funded by the Welsh Government are available free of charge on Helo Blod. Here are some examples of how people are using these open resources:

Teams transcription and Copilot Cymraeg

As part of my role at the Welsh Language Commissioner’s Office, I have several meetings through the medium of Welsh (or bilingually) with external organisations where I have to chair, contribute and take notes. Transcribing in Teams allows me to fully focus on the discussion and contribute appropriately.

In terms of creating post-meeting minutes, I download the transcript from Teams as a document and upload it to Copilot, prompting it to identify the main discussion points and actions. I do this immediately after the meeting while everything is fresh in my mind, and I have to say that the results are very impressive.

Trawsgrifiwr

At the Press Office, we keep a record of every interview a Minister gives to the media. We then draft and share a transcript with our team to ensure that everyone is up to date with what has been said publicly.

As a bilingual team, Trawsgrifiwr has enabled all members of the press office to capture and transcribe Welsh-language interviews and make them available to the team through the translation function-after human verification. Through the Cymraeg 2050 team, we welcomed the chance to work with the developers as well to refine a system that better suited our needs as a team and will continue to use the programme going ahead.

Mapio Cymru

Senedd Cymru is now using work from the Mapio Cymru project (funded by the Welsh Government) as the basis for its constituency map across Wales. 

The interactive map is an example of how the Welsh Government's investment in open resources can create wider value, enabling other organisations to develop useful services that support citizens across Wales.