2 papers
cs.CL2026
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…
cs.CL2025
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…