2 papers
cs.CL2026
Swivuriso: The South African Next Voices Multilingual Speech Dataset
Vukosi Marivate, Kayode Olaleye, Sitwala Mundia +19
This paper introduces Swivuriso, a 3000-hour multilingual speech dataset developed as part of the African Next Voices project, to support the development and benchmarking of automa…
cs.CL2025
Mafoko: Structuring and Building Open Multilingual Terminologies for South African NLP
Vukosi Marivate, Isheanesu Dzingirai, Fiskani Banda +9
The critical lack of structured terminological data for South Africa's official languages hampers progress in multilingual NLP, despite the existence of numerous government and aca…