4 papers
Afrispeech Semantics: Evaluating Audio Semantic Reasoning in Spoken Language Models Across Domains and Accents
Chibuzor Okocha, Christan Grant
Audio language models (ALMs) are increasingly used for speech-based understanding, yet their ability to perform semantic reasoning beyond transcription, Text-to-Audio Retrieval, Ca…
Can large audio language models understand child stuttering speech? speech summarization, and source separation
Chibuzor Okocha, Maya Bakri, Christan Grant
Child speech differs from adult speech in acoustics, prosody, and language development, and disfluencies (repetitions, prolongations, blocks) further challenge Automatic Speech Rec…
Domain-Aware Speaker Diarization On African-Accented English
Chibuzor Okocha, Kelechi Ezema, Christan Grant
This study examines domain effects in speaker diarization for African-accented English. We evaluate multiple production and open systems on general and clinical dialogues under a s…
Afrispeech-Dialog: A Benchmark Dataset for Spontaneous English Conversations in Healthcare and Beyond
Mardhiyah Sanni, Tassallah Abdullahi, Devendra D. Kayande +9
Speech technologies are transforming interactions across various sectors, from healthcare to call centers and robots, yet their performance on African-accented conversations remain…