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Tone-Conditioned Curriculum Learning for Low-Resource Bantu Speech Recognition
Kesego Mokgosi, Vukosi Marivate, Sitwala Mundia +3
Southern Bantu languages are spoken by over 80 million people, yet current foundation ASR models still produce zero-shot WER above 100%, which limits practical use in education and…
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…
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…
From N-grams to Pre-trained Multilingual Models For Language Identification
Thapelo Sindane, Vukosi Marivate
In this paper, we investigate the use of N-gram models and Large Pre-trained Multilingual models for Language Identification (LID) across 11 South African languages. For N-gram mod…
MasakhaPOS: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Typologically Diverse African Languages
Cheikh M. Bamba Dione, David Adelani, Peter Nabende +41
In this paper, we present MasakhaPOS, the largest part-of-speech (POS) dataset for 20 typologically diverse African languages. We discuss the challenges in annotating POS for these…