4 papers
TransSLR: A Lightweight Transformer for Sign Language Recognition
Lucia Yen Wanchi, Samuel Johnny, Victor Tolulope Olufemi +2
Automated Sign Language Recognition for under-represented languages remains a largely unsolved problem. Central African Sign Language (CASL) exemplifies this gap: the only availabl…
From Speech to Text Corpora: Evaluating ASR-Based Data Acquisition for Low-Resource Fongbe and Hausa
Mahounan Pericles Adjovi, Victor Olufemi, Roald Eiselen +1
Low-resource African languages lack text corpora needed for language model training. We investigate whether ASR pipelines can extend text resources for two typologically distinct W…
WAXAL-NET: Finetuned Edge ASR Across 19 African Languages
Victor Tolulope Olufemi, Oreoluwa Babatunde, Ramsey Njema +28
We evaluate whether compact domain-specialized ASR models can outperform massively multilingual foundation models for conversational African speech across 19 languages in the WAXAL…
A Survey of Text and Speech Resources for Hausa and Fongbe: Availability, Quality, and Gaps for NLP Development
Mahounan Pericles Adjovi, Victor Olufemi, Roald Eiselen +1
This survey provides a comprehensive catalog of publicly available text and speech resources for two West African languages: Hausa, an Afroasiatic language with approximately 80-10…