2 papers
cs.CL2026
Ethio-ASR: Joint Multilingual Speech Recognition and Language Identification for Ethiopian Languages
Badr M. Abdullah, Israel Abebe Azime, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja +14
We present Ethio-ASR, a suite of multilingual CTC-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) models jointly trained on five Ethiopian languages: Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromo, Sidaama, an…
cs.CL2026
AmharicStoryQA: A Multicultural Story Question Answering Benchmark in Amharic
Israel Abebe Azime, Abenezer Kebede Angamo, Hana Mekonen Tamiru +4
With the growing emphasis on multilingual and cultural evaluation benchmarks for large language models, language and culture are often treated as synonymous, and performance is com…