7 papers
Building an ASR Solution for Training and Assessing Children's Reading
Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum Souleymane Coulibaly, Mamadou Dembele +2
Automatic speech recognition for children's reading remains underdeveloped for most African languages, including Bambara, despite its potential value for reproducible literacy asse…
Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures
Tyler A. Chang, Catherine Arnett, Abdelrahman Sadallah +377
To date, there exist almost no culturally-specific evaluation benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) that cover a large number of languages and cultures. In this paper, we pre…
Where Are We At with Automatic Speech Recognition for the Bambara Language?
Seydou Diallo, Yacouba Diarra, Mamadou K. Keita +3
This paper introduces the first standardized benchmark for evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in the Bambara language, utilizing one hour of professionally recorded Mali…
Listen, Attend, Understand: a Regularization Technique for Stable E2E Speech Translation Training on High Variance labels
Yacouba Diarra, Michael Leventhal
End-to-End Speech Translation often shows slower convergence and worse performance when target transcriptions exhibit high variance and semantic ambiguity. We propose Listen, Atten…
Kunnafonidilaw ka Cadeau: an ASR dataset of present-day Bambara
Yacouba Diarra, Panga Azazia Kamate, Nouhoum Souleymane Coulibaly +1
We present Kunkado, a 160-hour Bambara ASR dataset compiled from Malian radio archives to capture present-day spontaneous speech across a wide range of topics. It includes code-swi…
Dealing with the Hard Facts of Low-Resource African NLP
Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum Souleymane Coulibaly, Panga Azazia Kamaté +4
Creating speech datasets, models, and evaluation frameworks for low-resource languages remains challenging given the lack of a broad base of pertinent experience to draw from. This…