3 papers
cs.CL2026
Sometin Beta Pass Notin (SBPN): Improving Multilingual ASR for Nigerian Languages via Knowledge Distillation
Sewade Ogun
Although modern multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems support several Nigerian languages, their performance consistently lags behind high-resource languages like…
cs.CL2025
The NaijaVoices Dataset: Cultivating Large-Scale, High-Quality, Culturally-Rich Speech Data for African Languages
Chris Emezue, NaijaVoices Community, Busayo Awobade +8
The development of high-performing, robust, and reliable speech technologies depends on large, high-quality datasets. However, African languages -- including our focus, Igbo, Hausa…
eess.AS2025
An Exhaustive Evaluation of TTS- and VC-based Data Augmentation for ASR
Sewade Ogun, Vincent Colotte, Emmanuel Vincent
Augmenting the training data of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems with synthetic data generated by text-to-speech (TTS) or voice conversion (VC) has gained popularity in r…