6 papers
Generative Artificial Intelligence, Musical Heritage and the Construction of Peace Narratives: A Case Study in Mali
Nouhoum Coulibaly, Ousmane Ly, Michael Leventhal +1
This study explores the capacity of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) to contribute to the construction of peace narratives and the revitalization of musical heritage in…
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…
Cost Analysis of Human-corrected Transcription for Predominately Oral Languages
Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum Souleymane Coulibaly, Michael Leventhal
Creating speech datasets for low-resource languages is a critical yet poorly understood challenge, particularly regarding the actual cost in human labor. This paper investigates th…
The Serendipity of Claude AI: Case of the 13 Low-Resource National Languages of Mali
Alou Dembele, Nouhoum Souleymane Coulibaly, Michael Leventhal
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) have improved the representation of underrepresented languages. However, most languages, inclu…