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ZH: artificial intelligence translates all Romansh idioms <\/p>\n
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Researchers at the University of Zurich have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of translating texts from German into different Romansh idioms.\n<\/p>\n
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+ Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n Romansh is considered particularly complex for AI. <\/p>\n The Alas model is the first to support Romansh idioms, the university announced.<\/p>\n Romansh has five regional varieties: Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Sursmiran, Puter and Vallader. In addition to these, there is Rumantsch Grischun, which is used for drafting official texts. For AI systems, this variety poses a particular challenge.<\/p>\n While AI assistants such as ChatGPT already master Rumantsch Grischun to some extent, they have so far had great difficulty with regional idioms. On the initiative of the Lia Rumantscha (the umbrella body of Romansh language associations), the research team has now developed an AI model capable of handling these variants.<\/p>\n Results verified with native speakers<\/p>\n Alas was specifically applied to Romansh idioms. The data included, among other things, contributions from the Romansh radio and television station RTR, newspaper articles, literary texts, school textbooks and documents from the communes and canton Graub\u00fcnden.<\/p>\n The results were verified in a blind test with native speakers. \u201cThe comparison confirmed to us that Alas produces significantly better translations than current AI assistants,\u201d said Jannis Vamvas from the University of Zurich. <\/p>\n The translations would be more content-accurate and more idiomatic. Only translations made by humans performed even better.<\/p>\n The translation programme Alas is available to the public free of charge on a website. The underlying AI model is also accessible as open source software for experts to test it and develope further.<\/p>\n \n More<\/p>\n More <\/p>\n Swiss AI\n <\/p>\n Fact and fiction about the Swiss AI model Apertus\u00a0 <\/p>\n This content was published on <\/p>\n Oct 6, 2025 <\/p>\n A look at what\u2019s behind the most frequent claims about the new Swiss technology. <\/p>\n![\"Since](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/675848430_highres.jpg\")
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