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Scaling HuBERT for African Languages: From Base to Large and XL
Antoine Caubrière, Elodie Gauthier
Despite recent progress in multilingual speech processing, African languages remain under-represented in both research and deployed systems, particularly when it comes to strong, o…
Africa-Centric Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Multilingual Speech Representation in a Sub-Saharan Context
Antoine Caubrière, Elodie Gauthier
We present the first self-supervised multilingual speech model trained exclusively on African speech. The model learned from nearly 60 000 hours of unlabeled speech segments in 21…
Preuve de concept d'un bot vocal dialoguant en wolof
Elodie Gauthier, Papa-Séga Wade, Thierry Moudenc +7
This paper presents the proof-of-concept of the first automatic voice assistant ever built in Wolof language, the main vehicular language spoken in Senegal. This voicebot is the re…
Kallaama: A Transcribed Speech Dataset about Agriculture in the Three Most Widely Spoken Languages in Senegal
Elodie Gauthier, Aminata Ndiaye, Abdoulaye Guissé
This work is part of the Kallaama project, whose objective is to produce and disseminate national languages corpora for speech technologies developments, in the field of agricultur…
Machine Assisted Analysis of Vowel Length Contrasts in Wolof
Elodie Gauthier, Laurent Besacier, Sylvie Voisin
Growing digital archives and improving algorithms for automatic analysis of text and speech create new research opportunities for fundamental research in phonetics. Such empirical…