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cs.CL2026
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…
cs.CL2025
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…
cs.CL2025
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…