3 papers
cs.CL2026
Wolof-Adapted Industry-Ready Open-Weight Language Models
Gwénolé Lecorvé, Delphine Charlet, Pierre Adam +15
Wolof is spoken by 23M people, mostly in Senegal, but remains weakly supported by open-weight language models, while API models raise cost, governance, and sovereignty constraints…
cs.CL2025
CBF-AFA: Chunk-Based Multi-SSL Fusion for Automatic Fluency Assessment
Papa Séga Wade, Mihai Andries, Ioannis Kanellos +1
Automatic fluency assessment (AFA) remains challenging, particularly in capturing speech rhythm, pauses, and disfluencies in non-native speakers. We introduce a chunk-based approac…
cs.CL2024
Preuve de concept d'un bot vocal dialoguant en wolof
Elodie Gauthier, Papa-Séga Wade, Thierry Moudenc +7
This paper presents the proof-of-concept of the first automatic voice assistant ever built in Wolof language, the main vehicular language spoken in Senegal. This voicebot is the re…