Swiss-German-Speech-Data---Meeting-Notes.md

+## Meeting June 17, 2026
+
+### Participants
+
+Yixuan Xu, Fabian, Jeitziner, Daniel Perruchoud, Michael Graber
+
+### Previous Action Items
+
+* [ ] Roberto: Licence agreement, also partially for Regionaljournal & Espresso broadcasts (needs to be commercially usable and openly shareable)
+* [x] FHNW: share synthesized SFT QA questions via huggingface
+* [ ] FHNW: evaluate synthesized SFT audio quality via ASR
+
+### Discussion Items
+
+* via Roberto: SRG board sends positive signals regarding use of SRG data for apertus traininng, more details to follow soon
+* Yixuan: if no transcripts are available, multiple transcription model should be used in the future
+* If there are podcasts, this could processed into SFT training data
+* Yixuan: SwissDial license remains unclear
+* Timeline
+  * pre-training 1.5 70B, 8B completed, including SFT
+  * RL stage still ongoing, without multimodal data though
+  * release planned end of June
+  * Maybe 1.6 release with improved multimodality
+  * pre-training 2.0 should still start beginning July
+    * staged training
+    * SRG data could be used in stage 2/3
+* Starting beginning of July new contact person will coordinate audio
+  * hand-over will be planned 
+
+### New Action Points
+
 ## Meeting May 27, 2026
 
 ### Participants