Translate the text from Welsh to English.



 
Mae'r prosiect *Lleisiwr*, sydd wedi derbyn £20,000 o gronfa grant Cymraeg 2050, yn gyfrifol am ddatblygu technoleg sy'n creu lleisiau synthetig personol i siaradwyr Cymraeg sydd mewn perygl o golli eu gallu i siarad oherwydd clefydau fel canser y llwnc. Mae'r gwaith yn cael ei ddatblygu gan Ganolfan Bedwyr ym Mhrifysgol Bangor mewn partneriaeth â Bwrdd Iechyd Betsi Cadwaladr ac unwaith y bydd yn barod caiff ei gyflwyno ledled Cymru.

 Ar hyn o bryd, dim ond lleisiau synthetig Saesneg eu cyfrwng sydd ar gael i gleifion sydd wedi colli eu llais a gall hyn effeithio ar eu gallu i gyfathrebu â ffrindiau ac aelodau'r teulu maen nhw wedi siarad Cymraeg â nhw ar hyd eu hoes.

 Mae'r grant Cymraeg 2050 yn elfen allweddol o strategaeth y Gymraeg, Cymraeg 2050: Miliwn o siaradwyr Cymraeg. Mae'n cynnig grantiau bychan hyd at £20,000 yr un tuag at brosiectau arloesol, tymor byr gyda'r nod o gynyddu defnydd pobl o'r iaith o ddydd i ddydd ac i hybu technoleg sy'n cefnogi'r defnydd a wneir o'r Gymraeg. Cymeradwywyd chwech ar hugain o brosiectau yn ystod y rownd ariannu gyntaf a bydd yr ail rownd ariannu yn agor i ymgeiswyr yn hwyrach eleni.

 Dywedodd y Gweinidog: 

 
> “Mae'r ymweliad heddiw wedi bod yn unig yn addysgiadol ond yn hynod o ysbrydoledig. Mae fy ngyrfa wedi'i seilio ar fy ngallu i siarad felly mae'n bosib mod i'n fwy ymwybodol na llawer pa mor frawychus fyddai golli'r gallu hwnnw oherwydd salwch. Colled hyd yn oed fwy fyddai colli'r gallu i siarad â fy nheulu a'm ffrindiau yn yr iaith ry'n ni wedi arfer ei siarad bob dydd. Rydw i wrth fy modd felly fod Prifysgol Bangor a Bwrdd Iechyd Betsi Cadwaladr yn gweithio ar y prosiect Lleisiau Cymraeg ac yn falch iawn bod Llywodraeth Cymru yn cyfrannu at y prosiect.”

 Yn dilyn yr ymweliad, dywedodd Delyth Prys, Pennaeth yr Uned Technolegau Iaith yng Nghanolfan Bedwyr: 

 
> “Roedd hi’n bleser cael croesau Gweinidog y Gymraeg atom ni i edrych ar y prosiect hwn. Mae’r gwaith cyffrous yma yn rhoi cyfle i ni ddefnyddio ein technoleg siarad Cymraeg mewn sefyllfa ymarferol er budd cleifion. Rydyn ni’n edrych ymlaen at weld ymateb pobl sy’n cael eu cyfeirio atom ni gan y Gwasanaeth Iechyd, ac at ddatblygu’r dechnoleg yma ymhellach yn y dyfodol.”







Translation:


 
The *Lleisiwr* project, which has received £20,000 from the Cymraeg 2050 grant fund, develops technology which builds personal synthetic voices for Welsh speakers at risk of losing their ability to speak due to diseases such as throat cancer. It is being developed by Canolfan Bedwyr at Bangor University, in partnership with Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board and, once ready, will be available across Wales.

 Currently, patients who have lost their voices only have access to English medium synthetic voices which impacts on their ability to converse with friends and family with whom they have always spoken Welsh.

 The Cymraeg 2050 grant is a key element of the Welsh language strategy, Cymraeg 2050: A million Welsh speakers. It provides small grants of up to £20,000 each to fund innovative, short\-term projects which aim to increase people’s daily use of the language and to promote technology which supports the use of Welsh. Twenty\-six projects were approved in the first round of funding last year while a second round of funding will open for applications later this year.

 The Minister said: 

 
> “Today’s visit has been both informative and very inspiring. I have built a career on my ability to speak so know maybe more than most how devastating it would be to lose that ability through illness. A far greater loss would be to lose the ability to speak to my family and friends in the language we use every day so I am delighted Bangor University and Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board are working on the Welsh Voices project and proud the Welsh Government is contributing to the project.”

 Following the visit, Head of the Language Technologies Unit at Canolfan Bedwyr, Delyth Prys, said: 

 
> “It was a pleasure to welcome the Minister for the Welsh Language and to showcase this project. This hugely exciting project gives us an opportunity to apply our Welsh language speech technology in a way that benefits patients. We look forward to the feedback from patients as they’re referred to us by the National Health Service, and to further developing this technology in the future.”