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WAXAL: A Large-Scale Multilingual African Language Speech Corpus
Abdoulaye Diack, Perry Nelson, Kwaku Agbesi +40
The advancement of speech technology has predominantly favored high-resource languages, creating a significant digital divide for speakers of most Sub-Saharan African languages. To…
Machine Learning for Detection and Severity Estimation of Sweetpotato Weevil Damage in Field and Lab Conditions
Doreen M. Chelangat, Sudi Murindanyi, Bruce Mugizi +6
Sweetpotato weevils (Cylas spp.) are considered among the most destructive pests impacting sweetpotato production, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Traditional methods for asses…
Benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Models for African Languages
Alvin Nahabwe, Sulaiman Kagumire, Denis Musinguzi +5
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for African languages remains constrained by limited labeled data and the lack of systematic guidance on model selection, data scaling, and decod…
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for African Low-Resource Languages: A Systematic Literature Review
Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Kedir Yassin Husse +7
ASR has achieved remarkable global progress, yet African low-resource languages remain rigorously underrepresented, producing barriers to digital inclusion across the continent wit…
mSTEB: Massively Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs on Speech and Text Tasks
Luel Hagos Beyene, Vivek Verma, Min Ma +4
Large Language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on a wide range of tasks, including in multimodal settings such as speech. However, their evaluation is often…
Amplify Initiative: Building A Localized Data Platform for Globalized AI
Qazi Mamunur Rashid, Erin van Liemt, Tiffany Shih +19
Current AI models often fail to account for local context and language, given the predominance of English and Western internet content in their training data. This hinders the glob…