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How much speech data is necessary for ASR in African languages? An evaluation of data scaling in Kinyarwanda and Kikuyu
Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula, Patrick Walukagga +3
The development of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems for low-resource African languages remains challenging due to limited transcribed speech data. While recent advances i…
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Sunflower: A New Approach To Expanding Coverage of African Languages in Large Language Models
Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula Ouma, Gilbert Yiga +11
There are more than 2000 living languages in Africa, most of which have been bypassed by advances in language technology. Current leading LLMs exhibit strong performance on a numbe…