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Here’s the statement that the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and �ʶ����� language published on 7 January 2025 on our priorities for �ʶ����� language technology. 

“We’ll do everything we can to make it easier to use Cymraeg in technology, and we’ll use all the possibilities that technology offers to help us use Cymraeg.”

Mark Drakeford, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and �ʶ����� language.

In February 2025, we updated and expanded our to include a dedication section for parents and carers. 

Here are our 3 priorities for �ʶ����� language technology:

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

We’ll publish regular updates on our work for technology and the �ʶ����� language on this page.

Accurate, reliable and useful �ʶ����� language technology can help us increase the daily use of �ʶ�����, 1 of the 2 main targets of Cymraeg 2050: A million �ʶ����� speakers. Technology can make it easier for us to use Cymraeg in all aspects of life, from education and work to chatting with friends, family and colleagues.

We think that �ʶ����� language interfaces, tools and resources should be available as easily as possible. We’ll continue to work with partners to reduce ‘ while using �ʶ����� language tools and services so people can use their Cymraeg in more situations. We’ll also continue to promote our  to make content and services as easy as possible to use yn Gymraeg.

The  logo is an effective way of showing that we can speak �ʶ�����. It also helps us find other �ʶ����� speakers. You may have seen the orange speech bubble on a poster at a reception or on a lanyard to advertise that a �ʶ����� language service is available. We’ll be working with the , who’s responsible for Iaith Gwaith (Working �ʶ�����), to make it even more prominent in the digital world, so that people feel more confident to start more conversations and use more services yn Gymraeg. This will be part of our wider collaboration with the Commissioner on developing the use of �ʶ����� language digital technology and services in workplaces and beyond.

Spelling and grammar checkers are already available. We’ll make sure that these tools are up to date. We’ll support their improvement and make them available on more platforms.

We want you to know about everything that’s available to you and how best to use it, so we’ll regularly update our .

We’ll continue to support the community of developers in Wales. We’ll work with them so they can create more content and services in �ʶ�����.

Cymraeg belongs to us all. We want to make sure everyone can access �ʶ����� language technology to make it easier for us to use more of our Cymraeg. When we say us, we mean everyone, wherever we are on our language journey.

We want to make it easier for parents and carers of school children to use more Cymraeg. We’ll work with the schools sector to make it easier for parents, carers and teachers to support children’s �ʶ�����-language education. We’ll share more news and updates, via , on appropriate technology and content for schools to share and re-share with parents and carers.

We’ll also expand our  to include a dedicated section for parents and carers so that we can help children use more Cymraeg in school and beyond the classroom.

We want to support digital advances to help people become more confident wherever they are on their language journey. Tools like the  are already available from the National Centre for Learning �ʶ�����. We’ll work with the Centre to develop the technology behind their tools to make it even easier for technology to help people use Cymraeg every day.

An important part of our �ʶ����� language technology work is helping people with specific needs. This could include:

• disabled people
• people with additional learning needs (ALN)
• people with needs resulting from an illness
• people with a cognitive or physical impairment

We’ll work to help everyone use more of their Cymraeg in tools where �ʶ����� isn’t supported to the degree it needs to be.

We’ll identify gaps and offer data and resources to motivate companies to support �ʶ�����. This includes screen readers and pen-readers for school assessments, and better embedding of bilingual synthetic voices for people with visual impairments.

We want everyone to feel safe and protected from harmful content when they use technology in �ʶ�����. We’ll work to motivate regulators and companies to consider how they will flag �ʶ����� language issues.

Modern language technologies, like the large language models (LLMs) used by artificial intelligence (AI), rely on large amounts of training data to be more accurate, culturally relevant and unbiased. We all need to share more �ʶ����� text, video and other data wherever we can to improve AI and other technologies. 

We already share �ʶ����� language data with projects around the world. We share �ʶ����� language data with Amazon for their  database. We also share data with the  project, led by the Government of Catalonia in collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre. We do this because we want to encourage more people to share more data. This can be by actually sending data to Microsoft as a formal offer as part of our partnership or just by openly licencing suitable data. 

For us to use more Cymraeg in AI, the output needs to be accurate, safe and culturally relevant. The same is true for �ʶ����� language and bilingual speech recognition. This needs to be able to recognise and accurately transcribe the �ʶ����� we all speak with our colleagues, and our friends and families. 

As part of our partnership with Microsoft, we’ve already collaborated to develop a . This partnership now also include work to improve Copilot in �ʶ�����: Microsoft’s latest AI tool. As we all become more used to speaking with AI assistants or using AI to summarise our meetings, we want to be able to chat with technology in the way that �ʶ����� speakers chat in real life, for example ‘code switching’, which is when we use a bit of Saesneg in our Cymraeg and vice versa. We’re already working with international partners so that our work on this can help multilingual communities around the world.