2 papers
cs.CL2026
Cross-lingual Matryoshka Representation Learning across Speech and Text
Yaya Sy, Dioula Doucouré, Christophe Cerisara +1
Speakers of under-represented languages face both a language barrier, as most online knowledge is in a few dominant languages, and a modality barrier, since information is largely…
cs.CL2025
Speech Language Models for Under-Represented Languages: Insights from Wolof
Yaya Sy, Dioula Doucouré, Christophe Cerisara +1
We present our journey in training a speech language model for Wolof, an underrepresented language spoken in West Africa, and share key insights. We first emphasize the importance…