3 papers
eess.AS2026
WAXAL: A Large-Scale Multilingual African Language Speech Corpus
Abdoulaye Diack, Perry Nelson, Kwaku Agbesi +40
The advancement of speech technology has predominantly favored high-resource languages, creating a significant digital divide for speakers of most Sub-Saharan African languages. To…
cs.SD2026
Enabling Automatic Disordered Speech Recognition: An Impaired Speech Dataset in the Akan Language
Isaac Wiafe, Akon Obu Ekpezu, Sumaya Ahmed Salihs +3
The lack of impaired speech data hinders advancements in the development of inclusive speech technologies, particularly in low-resource languages such as Akan. To address this gap,…
cs.CL2025
A Cookbook for Community-driven Data Collection of Impaired Speech in LowResource Languages
Sumaya Ahmed Salihs, Isaac Wiafe, Jamal-Deen Abdulai +7
This study presents an approach for collecting speech samples to build Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models for impaired speech, particularly, low-resource languages. It aims…