{"id":14550,"date":"2021-01-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/nemendur-i-setbergsskola-logdu-sina-rodd-ad-morkum\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:16:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:16:28","slug":"students-at-setberg-school-lit-their-arses-on-fire-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/nemendur-i-setbergsskola-logdu-sina-rodd-ad-morkum\/","title":{"rendered":"Pupils at Setberg School contributed their voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Students lent their voices to the cause&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.setbergsskoli.is\/\">Pupils at Setberg School<\/a> took part in the Samr\u00f3m Primary School Reading Competition, and emerged victorious in their category for the most sentences read in Samr\u00f3m between 18th and 25th January. Data from the Samr\u00f3m word bank shows that during the competition, around 790,000 sentences were read by 6,172 people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulations, Setbergssk\u00f3li!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 560\/315\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FeluKaPBu0fg&#038;video_width=560&#038;video_height=315)\" ><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eluKaPBu0fg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Awards and recognition for outstanding performance were presented at a ceremony at Bessasta\u00f0ir yesterday, where the President and First Lady, Gu\u00f0ni Th. J\u00f3hannesson and Eliza Reed, warmly welcomed representatives from the winning schools. It was Hei\u00f0r\u00fan Ing\u00f3lfsd\u00f3ttir and \u00deorsteinn Darri Ing\u00f3lfsson who proudly accepted the Sphero Spark robots on behalf of their school; the robots combine play with programming lessons and are designed to encourage curiosity, creativity and new discoveries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/setbergsskolisamromur.jpg\" alt=\"Setberg School of Samromer\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1640\/1094;\"><\/p>\n<section><sup>Setbergssk\u00f3li won its category: 27,000 sentences read aloud by 314 participants. Photo\/Submitted&nbsp;<\/sup><\/section>\n<h4>The purpose and objectives of Samr\u00f3m and the Primary Schools' Reading Competition&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<p>The primary school reading competition is held to encourage participation in <a href=\"https:\/\/samromur.is\/\">The Samr\u00f3mur project<\/a> which is about collecting recordings of reading that will be used to teach computers and devices to understand Icelandic. Everyone can take part and read for their school, and therefore parents and staff are just as encouraged to record readings for the schools. Almannar\u00f3mur, Deloitte and the University of Reykjav\u00edk developed the website Samr\u00f3m, where the Icelandic public can easily contribute to the language's development. The project is part of the Language Technology Programme of Iceland, which is supported by the Ministry of Education, with the aim of increasing access to Icelandic in all kinds of technology. For computers and devices to understand Icelandic well, a large number of recordings of Icelandic speech from all sorts of people are needed, and in this way, everyone can contribute \u201etheir voice\u201c.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/samromur.is\/\">Your voice matters \u2013 get involved<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Why Samr\u00f3mur?&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<p>In recent years, there has been a revolution in voice technology and the way we use our voice to control technology. Icelandic is at a disadvantage due to these rapid technological changes, but many of us already interact with computers and various devices in a foreign language. People will increasingly use their voice to control all kinds of devices, but the problem is that the devices do not understand Icelandic. Therefore, it is important not to miss the boat, and work has now begun on a major collaborative project to make Icelandic viable for computers and devices. They will be joined by Icelandic universities, institutions, companies and organisations, which over the coming years will develop the necessary infrastructure for software that understands and speaks Icelandic. Samr\u00f3mur will be part of this project, an open dataset of voice samples for Icelandic that anyone can use to develop their own language technology solutions. In this way, we are ensuring the security of Icelandic in the digital age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/samromur.is\/um\">See all information on the project website.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/samromur\">Go to the project's Facebook page&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nemendur l\u00f6g\u00f0u s\u00edna r\u00f6dd a\u00f0 m\u00f6rkum&nbsp; Nemendur \u00ed Setbergssk\u00f3la t\u00f3ku, l\u00edkt og nemendur \u00ed 136 \u00f6\u00f0rum sk\u00f3lum, \u00fe\u00e1tt \u00ed Lestrarkeppni grunnsk\u00f3lanna hj\u00e1 Samr\u00f3mi og b\u00e1ru \u00fear sigur \u00far b\u00fdtum \u00ed s\u00ednum flokki fyrir fj\u00f6lda innlesinna setninga \u00ed Samr\u00f3m dagana 18. &#8211; 25. jan\u00faar. \u00cd g\u00f6gnum fr\u00e1 or\u00f0abanka Samr\u00f3ms kemur fram a\u00f0 \u00e1 me\u00f0an keppninni st\u00f3\u00f0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14550"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}