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How Architecture, Typology, and Adaptation Strategies Shape ASR for Low-Resource African Languages: A Controlled Empirical Study
Mercy Muchai, Kevin Chege, Nick Mumero Mwangi +4
Despite recent advancements in ASR, identifying effective architectures, fine-tuning approaches, and data adaptation strategies for low-resource languages remains challenging. We p…
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Toward Cultural Alignment: Human-Centered Evaluation of Multimodal AI Stories Across Five African Communities
Millicent Ochieng, Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Elizabeth A. Ankrah +8
In this paper, we examine how well AI-generated multimodal stories align with the lived practices, relationships, language, values, and visual expectations of the communities they…