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.CL2025
Sunflower: A New Approach To Expanding Coverage of African Languages in Large Language Models
Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula Ouma, Gilbert Yiga +11
There are more than 2000 living languages in Africa, most of which have been bypassed by advances in language technology. Current leading LLMs exhibit strong performance on a numbe…
cs.SE2025
Design and Evaluation of a Scalable Data Pipeline for AI-Driven Air Quality Monitoring in Low-Resource Settings
Richard Sserujongi, Daniel Ogenrwot, Nicholas Niwamanya +7
The increasing adoption of low-cost environmental sensors and AI-enabled applications has accelerated the demand for scalable and resilient data infrastructures, particularly in da…