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Learning Nigerian accent embeddings from speech: preliminary results based on SautiDB-Naija corpus
Tejumade Afonja, Oladimeji Mudele, Iroro Orife +6
This paper describes foundational efforts with SautiDB-Naija, a novel corpus of non-native (L2) Nigerian English speech. We describe how the corpus was created and curated as well…
AVASpeech-SMAD: A Strongly Labelled Speech and Music Activity Detection Dataset with Label Co-Occurrence
Yun-Ning Hung, Karn N. Watcharasupat, Chih-Wei Wu +4
We propose a dataset, AVASpeech-SMAD, to assist speech and music activity detection research. With frame-level music labels, the proposed dataset extends the existing AVASpeech dat…
Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets
Julia Kreutzer, Isaac Caswell, Lisa Wang +49
With the success of large-scale pre-training and multilingual modeling in Natural Language Processing (NLP), recent years have seen a proliferation of large, web-mined text dataset…
MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jade Abbott, Graham Neubig +58
We take a step towards addressing the under-representation of the African continent in NLP research by creating the first large publicly available high-quality dataset for named en…