2 papers
cs.CL2026
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…
cs.CL2025
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…