Discover real examples of how TalTech students, staff, and researchers use artificial intelligence in learning, work, and research. These stories highlight the practical value of AI and the benefits it brings to everyday tasks and workflows.
AI use cases at TalTech
Protsessor: Thesis Management System.
Protsessor is an environment that enables users to manage thesis topics, apply for them, track applications and invitations, submit theses, and receive feedback. The system supports both students and supervisors.
Field: Teaching and Learning
AI Tool: Web-Based Management System, Workflow Automation, Notification System, Markdown-Based Feedback
Benefits: Thesis topic and application management becomes faster and more transparent, supervisors can manage theses more efficiently, and students gain a clearer overview of their applications, deadlines, submissions, and feedback.
Access: TalTech community
Status: In Use
Contact: Ago Luberg
Personal Student Assistant Peaaru
Peaaru is TalTech’s AI-powered personal learning assistant that supports students in their learning journey and assists lecturers with teaching-related activities. The assistant helps users find information, understand and explore topics, and navigate the learning process more effectively.
Field: Teaching and Learning
AI Tool: Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, Conversational AI Assistant
Benefits: Provides faster access to knowledge, improves learner support, increases flexibility in learning, enables personalized explanations, and reduces the time lecturers spend answering repetitive questions.
Access: TalTech staff
Status: In Use / Pilot
Contact: Ago Luberg
AI-Powered Thesis Supervision Assistant
An AI assistant that helps students write their thesis and supports supervisors by providing automated first-level feedback on the structure, formatting, referencing, and methodology of the work.
Field: Teaching and Learning
AI Tool: Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), document analysis, automated feedback
Benefits: Reduces supervisors’ time burden, gives students immediate feedback, improves consistency in supervision quality, and allows more focus on substantive guidance.
Access: TalTech staff
Status: Pilot / Under Development
Contact: Tõnn Talpsepp
TalTech PhD Guide: AI-Powered Onboarding Support for Doctoral Students.
An AI-powered assistant that helps new doctoral students navigate PhD processes, requirements, and support services, and guides them to the right information or contact person. The system is based on TalTech’s approved knowledge base and works in both Estonian and English.
Field: Teaching and Learning, Support Services
AI Tool: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), knowledge-based chatbot, Microsoft Copilot Studio (possible platform), intelligent search
Benefits: Doctoral students can find the information they need faster, administrative workload for supervisors and specialists is reduced, process transparency improves, and the university gains better insight into bottlenecks in the onboarding process.
Access: TalTech staff
Status: Pilot / Under Development
Contact: Sandra Vokk
AI Grading Assistant for Practical Work
An AI-based grading assistant pilot project in which students’ practical assignments undergo automated assessment and feedback before reaching the lecturer. The solution allows students to improve their work independently and frees up the lecturer’s time for substantive guidance and oral defense.
Field: Teaching and Learning
AI Tool: ChatGPT, Custom GPTs, AI Grading Assistant, Prompt Engineering, Automated Feedback
Benefits: Students receive immediate feedback and can improve their work more quickly. Lecturers’ workload is reduced, as the initial assessment is performed by AI. The time saved can be redirected to oral defenses and more meaningful supervision and mentoring.
Access: TalTech staff
Status: Pilot / In Use
Contact: Raivo Sell
Hybrid Intelligent Assessment System with an AI Assistant
Development of an AI assistant that provides students with weekly guidance and support throughout their project work. The assistant uses a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system and can be implemented in platforms such as ChatGPT or BoodleBox.
Field:Teaching and learning
Benefit:Provides students with a structured learning pathway and continuous support adapted to their project progress. It may also reduce teachers’ time spent answering repetitive questions and monitoring routine learning activities.
Access: Public
Status: Pilot
Contact: Janika Leoste ja Slavko Rakic
TalTech Speech Translation: Real-Time Translation of Estonian Speech
TalTech’s Language Technology Lab has developed a speech translation solution that enables the automatic translation of spoken Estonian into other languages and vice versa in real time. The solution integrates speech recognition, machine translation, and speech synthesis technologies into a single seamless workflow.
Field: Teaching, Research, Support Services
AI Tools: Speech-to-Text (STT), Machine Translation (MT), Text-to-Speech (TTS), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Language Technology Models
Benefits: Makes Estonian-language content more accessible to international audiences, supports international teaching and research activities, and helps reduce language barriers within the university and in society more broadly.
Access: Public
Status: In Use
Contact: TalTech Language Technology Laboratory (Tanel ALumäe)
Available: HERE
TalTech IT Career Explorer
An interactive AI-powered application that helps users discover the most suitable IT fields of study and plan their future careers. Through practical tasks and personalized guidance, the tool identifies study and career paths that best match the user’s interests, strengths, and goals.
Field: Admissions
AI Tools: React 18, TypeScript single-page application (SPA) with a responsive user interface; Node.js and Express server with business logic; PostgreSQL; n8n workflows; OpenAI GPT; external gamified assessment tools.
Benefits: Enables users to virtually try out different IT-related tasks and activities, helping them identify their interests and strengths and discover suitable study and career paths.
Access: Public
Status: In Use
Contact: Birgy Lorenz
Available: HERE
Protsessor: Thesis Management System.
Protsessor is an environment that enables users to manage thesis topics, apply for them, track applications and invitations, submit theses, and receive feedback. The system supports both students and supervisors.
Field: Teaching and Learning
AI Tool: Web-Based Management System, Workflow Automation, Notification System, Markdown-Based Feedback
Benefits: Thesis topic and application management becomes faster and more transparent, supervisors can manage theses more efficiently, and students gain a clearer overview of their applications, deadlines, submissions, and feedback.
Access: TalTech community
Status: In Use
Contact: Ago Luberg
Personal Student Assistant Peaaru
Peaaru is TalTech’s AI-powered personal learning assistant that supports students in their learning journey and assists lecturers with teaching-related activities. The assistant helps users find information, understand and explore topics, and navigate the learning process more effectively.
Field: Teaching and Learning
AI Tool: Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, Conversational AI Assistant
Benefits: Provides faster access to knowledge, improves learner support, increases flexibility in learning, enables personalized explanations, and reduces the time lecturers spend answering repetitive questions.
Access: TalTech staff
Status: In Use / Pilot
Contact: Ago Luberg
AI-Powered Thesis Supervision Assistant
An AI assistant that helps students write their thesis and supports supervisors by providing automated first-level feedback on the structure, formatting, referencing, and methodology of the work.
Field: Teaching and Learning
AI Tool: Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), document analysis, automated feedback
Benefits: Reduces supervisors’ time burden, gives students immediate feedback, improves consistency in supervision quality, and allows more focus on substantive guidance.
Access: TalTech staff
Status: Pilot / Under Development
Contact: Tõnn Talpsepp
AI Grading Assistant for Practical Work
An AI-based grading assistant pilot project in which students’ practical assignments undergo automated assessment and feedback before reaching the lecturer. The solution allows students to improve their work independently and frees up the lecturer’s time for substantive guidance and oral defense.
Field: Teaching and Learning
AI Tool: ChatGPT, Custom GPTs, AI Grading Assistant, Prompt Engineering, Automated Feedback
Benefits: Students receive immediate feedback and can improve their work more quickly. Lecturers’ workload is reduced, as the initial assessment is performed by AI. The time saved can be redirected to oral defenses and more meaningful supervision and mentoring.
Access: TalTech staff
Status: Pilot / In Use
Contact: Raivo Sell
LLM-Based Course Card Analysis
An AI-powered tool for mapping generic competencies in curricula and course syllabi, validating learning outcomes, and assessing curriculum coherence and alignment.
Field: Teaching and Learning
AI Tool: Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, Text Analysis, Automated Classification
Benefits: Reduces manual workload for academic administration, supports programme directors in curriculum management, improves the quality and alignment of learning outcomes, and creates opportunities for more personalized learning pathways and competency-based course discovery in the future.
Access: TalTech staff
Status: Pilot / Testing
Contact: Ago Luberg
AI Toolkit for Lecturers
A collection of ChatGPT-based AI assistants that supports lecturers at different stages of the teaching process – from syllabus analysis and learning material creation to assessment and feedback automation.
Field: Teaching and Learning
AI Tool: ChatGPT, Custom GPTs, prompt engineering, generative AI, AI assistants
Benefits: Reduces lecturers’ time burden, improves the quality of learning materials, supports alignment between learning outcomes and assessment, enables faster feedback, and helps establish a consistent AI usage practice across the university.
Access: TalTech staff
Status: Pilot / Under Development
Contact: Birgy Lorenz
Tekstiks.ee: An estonian speech recognition and transcription service
Tekstiks.ee is a web service developed by the TalTech Speech and Language Technology Laboratory that automatically converts Estonian-language audio and video recordings into text. The service also allows users to edit transcriptions online and download them in Microsoft Word format.
Field: Teaching and Learning, Research, Support Services
AI Tool: Speech Recognition (Speech-to-Text), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Automated Transcription, TalTech Speech and Language Technology Models
Benefits: Significantly reduces the time required for transcription, simplifies meeting minute-taking, supports the analysis of research interviews, and enables faster processing of learning materials and recordings.
Access: Public
Status: In Use
Contact: TalTech Speech and Language Technology Laboratory (Tanel Alumäe ja Aivo Olev)
Available: HERE
Hybrid Intelligent Assessment System with an AI Assistant
Development of an AI assistant that provides students with weekly guidance and support throughout their project work. The assistant uses a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system and can be implemented in platforms such as ChatGPT or BoodleBox.
Field:Teaching and learning
Benefit:Provides students with a structured learning pathway and continuous support adapted to their project progress. It may also reduce teachers’ time spent answering repetitive questions and monitoring routine learning activities.
Access: Public
Status: Pilot
Contact: Janika Leoste ja Slavko Rakic
TalTech Speech Translation: Real-Time Translation of Estonian Speech
TalTech’s Language Technology Lab has developed a speech translation solution that enables the automatic translation of spoken Estonian into other languages and vice versa in real time. The solution integrates speech recognition, machine translation, and speech synthesis technologies into a single seamless workflow.
Field: Teaching, Research, Support Services
AI Tools: Speech-to-Text (STT), Machine Translation (MT), Text-to-Speech (TTS), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Language Technology Models
Benefits: Makes Estonian-language content more accessible to international audiences, supports international teaching and research activities, and helps reduce language barriers within the university and in society more broadly.
Access: Public
Status: In Use
Contact: TalTech Language Technology Laboratory (Tanel ALumäe)
Available: HERE
Personalized learning paths: semantic digitizer of curricula
AI-powered tool that transforms curriculum and course learning outcomes into a consistently formulated, Bloom’s Taxonomy-aligned, and machine-readable knowledge structure. The tool analyzes learning outcomes, refines their wording, identifies prerequisite relationships, and publishes the results as a knowledge graph.
Field: Educational technology, curriculum development, learning outcome analysis, digital twin of learning, semantic interoperability, knowledge graphs
AI Tool: ChatGPT, Custom GPTs
Benefits: The main benefit is higher-quality and more usable curriculum data. Learning outcomes become comparable, linkable, and reusable in new services such as personalized learning path recommendations, baseline assessment, self-assessment, curriculum gap analysis, and targeted learning material recommendations. The tool reduces the time needed for manual curriculum analysis and learning outcome refinement, since AI can generate an initial analysis, wording suggestions, a relationship outline, and a machine-readable structure much faster.
Access: TalTech community
Status: In use / under development
Contact: Margus Püüa
Tekstiks.ee: An estonian speech recognition and transcription service
Tekstiks.ee is a web service developed by the TalTech Speech and Language Technology Laboratory that automatically converts Estonian-language audio and video recordings into text. The service also allows users to edit transcriptions online and download them in Microsoft Word format.
Field: Teaching and Learning, Research, Support Services
AI Tool: Speech Recognition (Speech-to-Text), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Automated Transcription, TalTech Speech and Language Technology Models
Benefits: Significantly reduces the time required for transcription, simplifies meeting minute-taking, supports the analysis of research interviews, and enables faster processing of learning materials and recordings.
Access: Public
Status: In Use
Contact: TalTech Speech and Language Technology Laboratory (Tanel Alumäe ja Aivo Olev)
Available: HERE
AI Competency Mapping System
An AI-based competency mapping system that brings together TalTech researchers’, research groups’, and projects’ AI expertise in a single searchable platform.
Field: Research, Management
AI Tool:Large Language Models (LLMs), Automated Text Analysis, Keyword Tagging, and Knowledge Transfer through Knowledge Graphs.
Benefit:Improves the discoverability of AI competencies, supports research collaboration, simplifies proposal and project writing, increases TalTech’s visibility in the field of AI, and provides a foundation for strategic decision-making.
Access: Public
Status: In development
Contact: Ago Luberg
TalTech Speech Translation: Real-Time Translation of Estonian Speech
TalTech’s Language Technology Lab has developed a speech translation solution that enables the automatic translation of spoken Estonian into other languages and vice versa in real time. The solution integrates speech recognition, machine translation, and speech synthesis technologies into a single seamless workflow.
Field: Teaching, Research, Support Services
AI Tools: Speech-to-Text (STT), Machine Translation (MT), Text-to-Speech (TTS), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Language Technology Models
Benefits: Makes Estonian-language content more accessible to international audiences, supports international teaching and research activities, and helps reduce language barriers within the university and in society more broadly.
Access: Public
Status: In Use
Contact: TalTech Language Technology Laboratory (Tanel ALumäe)
Available: HERE
TalTech PhD Guide: AI-Powered Onboarding Support for Doctoral Students.
An AI-powered assistant that helps new doctoral students navigate PhD processes, requirements, and support services, and guides them to the right information or contact person. The system is based on TalTech’s approved knowledge base and works in both Estonian and English.
Field: Teaching and Learning, Support Services
AI Tool: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), knowledge-based chatbot, Microsoft Copilot Studio (possible platform), intelligent search
Benefits: Doctoral students can find the information they need faster, administrative workload for supervisors and specialists is reduced, process transparency improves, and the university gains better insight into bottlenecks in the onboarding process.
Access: TalTech staff
Status: Pilot / Under Development
Contact: Sandra Vokk
Tekstiks.ee: An estonian speech recognition and transcription service
Tekstiks.ee is a web service developed by the TalTech Speech and Language Technology Laboratory that automatically converts Estonian-language audio and video recordings into text. The service also allows users to edit transcriptions online and download them in Microsoft Word format.
Field: Teaching and Learning, Research, Support Services
AI Tool: Speech Recognition (Speech-to-Text), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Automated Transcription, TalTech Speech and Language Technology Models
Benefits: Significantly reduces the time required for transcription, simplifies meeting minute-taking, supports the analysis of research interviews, and enables faster processing of learning materials and recordings.
Access: Public
Status: In Use
Contact: TalTech Speech and Language Technology Laboratory (Tanel Alumäe ja Aivo Olev)
Available: HERE
AI Competency Mapping System
An AI-based competency mapping system that brings together TalTech researchers’, research groups’, and projects’ AI expertise in a single searchable platform.
Field: Research, Management
AI Tool:Large Language Models (LLMs), Automated Text Analysis, Keyword Tagging, and Knowledge Transfer through Knowledge Graphs.
Benefit:Improves the discoverability of AI competencies, supports research collaboration, simplifies proposal and project writing, increases TalTech’s visibility in the field of AI, and provides a foundation for strategic decision-making.
Access: Public
Status: In development
Contact: Ago Luberg
TalTech Speech Translation: Real-Time Translation of Estonian Speech
TalTech’s Language Technology Lab has developed a speech translation solution that enables the automatic translation of spoken Estonian into other languages and vice versa in real time. The solution integrates speech recognition, machine translation, and speech synthesis technologies into a single seamless workflow.
Field: Teaching, Research, Support Services
AI Tools: Speech-to-Text (STT), Machine Translation (MT), Text-to-Speech (TTS), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Language Technology Models
Benefits: Makes Estonian-language content more accessible to international audiences, supports international teaching and research activities, and helps reduce language barriers within the university and in society more broadly.
Access: Public
Status: In Use
Contact: TalTech Language Technology Laboratory (Tanel ALumäe)
Available: HERE
TalTech PhD Guide: AI-Powered Onboarding Support for Doctoral Students.
An AI-powered assistant that helps new doctoral students navigate PhD processes, requirements, and support services, and guides them to the right information or contact person. The system is based on TalTech’s approved knowledge base and works in both Estonian and English.
Field: Teaching and Learning, Support Services
AI Tool: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), knowledge-based chatbot, Microsoft Copilot Studio (possible platform), intelligent search
Benefits: Doctoral students can find the information they need faster, administrative workload for supervisors and specialists is reduced, process transparency improves, and the university gains better insight into bottlenecks in the onboarding process.
Access: TalTech staff
Status: Pilot / Under Development
Contact: Sandra Vokk
Tekstiks.ee: An estonian speech recognition and transcription service
Tekstiks.ee is a web service developed by the TalTech Speech and Language Technology Laboratory that automatically converts Estonian-language audio and video recordings into text. The service also allows users to edit transcriptions online and download them in Microsoft Word format.
Field: Teaching and Learning, Research, Support Services
AI Tool: Speech Recognition (Speech-to-Text), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Automated Transcription, TalTech Speech and Language Technology Models
Benefits: Significantly reduces the time required for transcription, simplifies meeting minute-taking, supports the analysis of research interviews, and enables faster processing of learning materials and recordings.
Access: Public
Status: In Use
Contact: TalTech Speech and Language Technology Laboratory (Tanel Alumäe ja Aivo Olev)
Available: HERE
AI Competency Mapping System
An AI-based competency mapping system that brings together TalTech researchers’, research groups’, and projects’ AI expertise in a single searchable platform.
Field: Research, Management
AI Tool:Large Language Models (LLMs), Automated Text Analysis, Keyword Tagging, and Knowledge Transfer through Knowledge Graphs.
Benefit:Improves the discoverability of AI competencies, supports research collaboration, simplifies proposal and project writing, increases TalTech’s visibility in the field of AI, and provides a foundation for strategic decision-making.
Access: Public
Status: In development
Contact: Ago Luberg