The Albanian language, and the effect of AI on learning languages

In this Prishtina Talks presentation, given on 7 March — Teachers' Day, and the anniversary of the opening of the first Albanian school in Korça in 1887 — the technology entrepreneur Betim Drenica speaks about the effect of artificial intelligence on language and on the learning of languages, with a particular focus on Albanian.

Drenica traces the road from imperative communication (where we tell the computer step by step what to do) to declarative communication (where we state what we want achieved), the move from classical NLP to the large language models, the present challenges of the technology (bias, correctness, hallucination), and then turns to Albanian itself — the absence of an official corpus, the limited quantitative approach in philology, and why Albanian has only two great formative events: 1908, the alphabet, and 1972, the standard.

In the second half he presents Shqip.ai — the Quantix product that turns spoken Albanian into text with state-of-the-art accuracy — with examples of its use in municipal assemblies, courts and the media, and the access it opens for people with impaired hearing.

Some of the points covered: 📌 From imperative to declarative communication with a computer 📌 Only 1% of people in the world know how to “speak to a computer” 📌 The challenges of AI: bias, correctness, and Google's “pope of colour” 📌 Why the Albanian language has only two great formative events 📌 The missing official corpus, and the quantitative approach in philology 📌 Shqip.ai: how recognition of spoken Albanian was built 📌 Use in municipal assemblies and courts, and access for the deaf

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