athenarc.gr

Athena Research Center (Ερευνητικό Κέντρο Αθηνά) is a Greek research centre. Its services include the openspeech.gr text-to-speech platform for Greek and English, the Klepsydra digitisation centre for cultural heritage, the MoRe metadata aggregator and its enrichment micro-services, and the geodata.gov.gr national open geospatial data catalogue, online since 2010. It also runs the Aerostato educational portal for children aged 3 to 7.

Customers include public and private cultural institutions, archaeological authorities and individuals who use its digitisation and speech services, and public bodies that publish geospatial data. The centre states that its services build on the results of its development activities.

The website marks 35 years of research and digital innovation for Greek language and culture, led in part by the Institute for Language and Speech Processing. The centre has research units and infrastructure in Xanthi, where two upgraded facilities were opened in October 2026.

Product: Text-to-speech platform (openspeech.gr), cultural heritage digitisation, MoRe metadata aggregator, geodata.gov.gr open geospatial catalogue, and the Aerostato children's education portal.