Nurses in Aberdeenshire are helping artificial intelligence (AI) technology learn the local Doric dialect.
The trial allows software to automatically generate structured clinical notes, after listening to conversations between nurses, patients and families.
Under the initiative, which runs until May, the notes are then checked and edited by the nurses at Inverurie Hospital's Donbank ward.
The project's lead, Katie Anderson, admitted Doric could sometimes "confuse" the system, but said it was improving every day.
Anderson - who is senior charge nurse at Inverurie Hospital - told BBC Scotland News a staff member who was "extremely Doric" caused the technology, which is called Corti, some issues.
