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The IgboAPI Dataset: Empowering Igbo Language Technologies through Multi-dialectal Enrichment
Chris Chinenye Emezue, Ifeoma Okoh, Chinedu Mbonu +12
The Igbo language is facing a risk of becoming endangered, as indicated by a 2025 UNESCO study. This highlights the need to develop language technologies for Igbo to foster communi…
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,…
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…