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AccentFold: A Journey through African Accents for Zero-Shot ASR Adaptation to Target Accents
Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Aditya Yadavalli, Chris Chinenye Emezue +2
Despite advancements in speech recognition, accented speech remains challenging. While previous approaches have focused on modeling techniques or creating accented speech datasets,…
AfriSpeech-200: Pan-African Accented Speech Dataset for Clinical and General Domain ASR
Tobi Olatunji, Tejumade Afonja, Aditya Yadavalli +8
Africa has a very low doctor-to-patient ratio. At very busy clinics, doctors could see 30+ patients per day -- a heavy patient burden compared with developed countries -- but produ…
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…