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1000 African Voices: Advancing inclusive multi-speaker multi-accent speech synthesis
Sewade Ogun, Abraham T. Owodunni, Tobi Olatunji +6
Recent advances in speech synthesis have enabled many useful applications like audio directions in Google Maps, screen readers, and automated content generation on platforms like T…
Performant ASR Models for Medical Entities in Accented Speech
Tejumade Afonja, Tobi Olatunji, Sewade Ogun +3
Recent strides in automatic speech recognition (ASR) have accelerated their application in the medical domain where their performance on accented medical named entities (NE) such a…
TEXT2TASTE: A Versatile Egocentric Vision System for Intelligent Reading Assistance Using Large Language Model
Wiktor Mucha, Florin Cuconasu, Naome A. Etori +2
The ability to read, understand and find important information from written text is a critical skill in our daily lives for our independence, comfort and safety. However, a signifi…
Text Categorization Can Enhance Domain-Agnostic Stopword Extraction
Houcemeddine Turki, Naome A. Etori, Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb +6
This paper investigates the role of text categorization in streamlining stopword extraction in natural language processing (NLP), specifically focusing on nine African languages al…
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…
What We Know So Far: Artificial Intelligence in African Healthcare
Naome Etori, Ebasa Temesgen, Maria Gini
Healthcare in Africa is a complex issue influenced by many factors including poverty, lack of infrastructure, and inadequate funding. However, Artificial intelligence (AI) applied…